Spurred by the 1963 March on Washington, 1964's Freedom Summer, and other direct action campaigns in the Civil Rights Movement, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965. But the sweeping civil rights legislation faced immediate backlash. Stream THE RIOT REPORT online and in the PBS app. → https://to.pbs.org/3xPckwN #RiotReportPBS | American Experience | PBS

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