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VIDEO: Civil Rights Leader opens up about the only time he saw MLK cry

ATLANTA VOICE — In the wake of Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech urging voting rights legislation get passed. Hear the reaction of civil rights leaders at the time.

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February 20, 2022

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President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Image Serial Number: A1030-17a. http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=222 / Wikimedia Commons)

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