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	Podcast:		LBJ's War
	Episode:		S2 Ep 5 - Give Us the Ballot
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:37:27
	Publish Date:		2020-03-03 00:00:00
	Description:		By his own account, and by many others as well, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was Lyndon Johnson’s greatest achievement – the jewel in the crown of the Great Society, and widely considered the most effective piece of civil rights legislation in American history. This podcast will focus on the extraordinarily eventful eight-month period — January to August 1965 — when the battle for Voting Rights was joined and ultimately fought to a successful conclusion. The outcome was hard won, and in doubt up until the last frantic weeks of negotiation and maneuvering. Why and how Johnson prevailed, where so many before him had failed, is the central story in this episode, which looks at the complex and precarious alliance forged between the President on the inside, and Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement on the outside. This episode includes interview excerpts from Washington University Libraries, drawn from the Henry Hampton Collection. This digitized resource includes complete video interviews with Civil Rights Movement leaders, recorded for the influential and award-winning documentary film, Eyes on the Prize. Commentary and context from historian Rhonda Y. Williams, the John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History at Vanderbilt University. Learn more at LBJsGreatSociety.org.
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