LBJ Vision for Racial Justice Weighed as Ruling Nears
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On March 16, 1965, a week after police beat civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, in a day remembered as “Bloody Sunday,” President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, saying “the time for justice has come.”
As early as tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court may rule that the aims of justice have been met.