Cat videos and TikTok is great. But every once in a while, picking up a book, what you came to recognize is that The success of the Voting Rights Act or the Civil Rights Act was first and foremost the courage and tenacity of generations of freedom fighters and the civil rights movement and Dr. King. But it was in the end also Lyndon Johnson, as flawed and tragic a figure as he was in a lot of ways. (04:27–04:44)
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Asserts that the success of the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act was primarily due to the civil rights movement and Dr. King.
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