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Gathering in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC, at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act as President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers remarks, August 6, 1965.
LBJ Library/ Photo by Frank Wolfe
The 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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President Lyndon B. Johnson (left) and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (right), two of the major protagonists in the struggle for civil rights, at a meeting in the Cabinet Room, at the White House, Washington, DC, March 18, 1966.
LBJ Library/  Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto 

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act, in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC, August 6, 1965
LBJ Library/ Photo by Robert Knudsen

President Lyndon B. Johnson delivering remarks from behind a podium at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC, August 6, 1965. Luci Johnson seated, listening, in foreground left.
 LBJ Library/ Photo by Frank Wolfe


 
 

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  • NAACP Leads Thousands in March to Extend the Voting Rights Act. 
  • Text of the Voting Rights Act (with updates)
  • Myths about the Voting Rights Act
  • Help America Vote Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-252)
  • NAACP and the continuing struggle to enforce the Voting Rights Act
  • Elections and finance: The struggle to bring integrity to the electoral process
  • Remarks of the U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
  • Remarks of the Acting Assistant Attorney General Bradley J. Schlozman
  • U.S. Supreme Court and challenges to the Voting Rights Act: The 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder.


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