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Unit 8 – The Postwar Period and Cold War, 1945–1980
Topic 8.10
What might have happened if President Lyndon B. Johnson hadn't signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Racial segregation would still continue legally in Southern states.
Nationwide riots and protests by African Americans would’ve increased dramatically immediately after this act was denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would've occurred sooner.
Systemic disenfranchisement of African Americans may have continued longer.
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AP US History - 8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
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