The historic record should be clarified that President Lyndon Baines Johnson initiated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the brutal killing of the four little girls and the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the brutalizing of John Robert Lewis.
Jackson Lee highlights Johnson's role in the Voting Rights Act following significant civil rights events.
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