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Episode 35: The Johnson Treatment (Part 4) Selma, Alabama and the Voter Rights Act of 1965
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If President Lyndon B. Johnson has a real claim to greatness it is for his work to pass the Voter's Rights Act of 1965. It was the act that guaranteed every citizen in this country the right to vote. It came after a horrifying Sunday in the Alabama town of Selma. It was there that a contingent of Alabama State Troopers attacked a group of protesters as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The entire country watched it all on television, including the President.
Lyndon Johnson had just passed a Civil Rights Act in 1964 that had guaranteed access to all Americans to…
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