President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>, responding to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma,_Alabama" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Selma, Alabama">Selma</a> crisis, tells <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a> "We shall overcome" while advocating the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Voting Rights Act">Voting Rights Act</a>.<sup about="#mwt167" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_15#cite_note-32" id="mwAQc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQg">[32]</span></a></sup>
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