President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Mitchell, and Patricia Roberts Harris exchange greetings after the signing of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965 in Washington, D.C. Speakers at an SPLC-sponsored event Thursday marked the 61st anniversary of the law, which has been gutted by recent Supreme Court rulings. (Courtesy of the LBJ Library)
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