Sixty years ago today LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act into law, and among those to whom he handed a signing pen was 25-year-old Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chair John Lewis, just a few months after Bloody Sunday in Selma.
Signing of the Voting Rights Act
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. LBJ handing a signing pen to John Lewis.
