Beto O'Rourke: “In 1965, the next year, there was a march across the Edmund…”

“Dr. King, Andrew Young, others left that meeting and said, we've got to get that president some power. And Anoushka, as you know from your knowledge of American history, In 1965, the next year, there was a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that ensured that the country understood the stakes of what was happening in America. It shocked our conscience. It allowed LBJ the presidential power that he had been missing, to get the Voting Rights act of 1965 passed into law.” (30:34–30:48)

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