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Secrets of the Dead
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Season 14
Episode 2
In many ways, President Lyndon B. Johnson was the most unlikely champion of Civil Rights. But his actions in the White House told a different story when he dared to champion two laws that changed America and the world — the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Discover the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World.
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