# Civil Rights and Voting

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Working amid sustained organizing by the Black freedom movement, Johnson pressed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Federal enforcement attacked legal segregation and discriminatory barriers to voting, though legislation did not eliminate structural racism or economic inequality.

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