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Protest was called off after President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to ban discrimination by defense industries or government.
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Court ordered integration of public schools.
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Kennedy won with 68% of the black vote!
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Lyndon B. Johnson, signed it into law
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He announced the voting rights legislation he would be introducing.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law.
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The news media fixed on the most controversial debates about the recognition of a Palestinian homeland and the use of busing to integrate schools. It was important because of its unity.
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The most controversial aspect of his plan was two-way busing, sending black students into majority-white schools and white children into predominantly black schools.
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