U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in

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Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and Rev. Martin Luther King

U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Cabinet Room at the White House in 1966. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in August 1965.