| By 1965 concerted efforts to break the
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| | way to Montgomery, persuaded the
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| grip of state disfranchisement had been
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| | President and Congress to overcome
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| under way for some time, but had achieved
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| | Southern legislators' resistance to
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| only modest success overall and in some
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| | allowing the African American
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| areas had achieved no success at all.The
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| | vote.President Johnson issued a call for
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| murder of voting-rights activists in
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| | a strong voting rights law and hearings
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| Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained
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| | began soon thereafter on the bill that
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| national attention, along with numerous
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| | would become the Voting Rights Act. On
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| other acts of violence and
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| | the dawn of its 40th Anniversary,
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| terrorism.Finally, the unprovoked attack
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| | Congress is preparing for the
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| on March 7, 1965, by state troopers on
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| | reauthorization
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| peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund
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| | of key provisions in the Voting Rights
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| Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on their
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| | Act that will expire in 2007.
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