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President Lyndon B. Johnson introduces the Voting Rights Act in a powerful speech before a joint session of Congress in 1965. He ends with a call to make the law really have an effect, concluding with the line ‘We shall overcome’. The clip then features reactions from a civil rights activist (and later a senior government official) and an Alabama mayor. First broadcast in Wheeler on America: America's Long March on 3 March 1996.