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[Roy Wilkins and President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House reviewing some of the strategies employed to secure passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965]

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  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Johnson, Lyndon B
  4. Meetings
  5. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  6. People
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. United States
  9. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
  10. Washington (D.C.)
  11. Wilkins, Roy

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