By GARY FIELDS and JACK DURA, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act into law.

The act protected the right to vote and ensured the government would fight efforts to suppress it, especially those aimed at Black voters . For many Americans, it was the day U.S. democracy fully began .

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