Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506.. President Johnson's Special Message to the Congress, The American Promise. March 15, 1965.
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Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506.
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