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G. K. Butterfield: “It was days after I finished high school, August 6, 1965. A very powerful law.”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2019
It was days after I finished high school, August 6, 1965. A very powerful law.
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G. K. Butterfield
Democratic · North Carolina

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Butterfield reflects on the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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