S2 Ep 5 - Give Us the Ballot

LBJ's War by PRX

Mar 3, 202037:33Society & Culture

By his own account the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was Lyndon Johnson’s greatest achievement – the jewel in the crown of the Great Society, and widely considered the most effective piece of civil rights legislation in Amer...

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