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After the civil rights act, the voting rights campaign of SNCC experienced violence and death in Mississippi. Nonviolent marchers were beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. Catalysed by these efforts, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6th, 1965.
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6 Aug 1965
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