Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark legislation after a hard-fought campaign led by Georgia civil rights icons like Martin Luther King Jr. and the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
Lewis was 25 when he helped lead a campaign to march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights in the spring of 1965.
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