An excerpt from the March 1965 speech to Congress in which President Johnson called for passage of the Voting Rights Act.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Johnson continued to press for voting rights, particularly in the American South. This document is the reading copy that Johnson used when delivering the speech.

Citation Information
Johnson, Lyndon B., excerpt from “Special message to the Congress: The American promise,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/16eef617f37d1b765b4b5ec21e07e0b1.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Lyndon Baines Johnson Library via Digital Library of Georgia.

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