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On the recordApril 21, 2021
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.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Jackson Lee highlights Johnson's role in the Voting Rights Act following significant civil rights events.

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