He had honed so many years in congress, pushed and supported by a movement of those willing to sacrifice everything for their own liberation, president johnson fought for and argued and horse traded and bullied and persuaded until ultimately he signed the Civil Rights Act into law. And he didnt stop there. Even though his advise source again told him to wait. Again told him, let the dust settle. Let the country absorb this momentous decision, he shook them off. The meat in the coconut as president johnson would put it was the Voting Rights act. So he fought for and passed that as well. Immigration reform came shortly after, and then a fair housing act. And then a healthcare law that opponented described as socialized medicine that would curtail americans freedom, and could rob them of their dignity and secure if i in their golden year, which we now know as medicare. [ applause ] what president johnson understood was that equality required more than the absence of oppression. It require
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