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Congress Protects the Right to Vote: The Voting Rights Act of 1965
5B. U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. Statement of Congressman L. Mendel Rivers. Hearings on H.R. 6400 and other proposals to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, March 31, 1965. 89th Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1965.
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