FILE – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room near the Senate chambers in Washington, Aug. 6, 1965. Surrounding the president from left directly above his right hand, Vice President Hubert Humphrey; Speaker John McCormack; Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.; Luci Johnson; and Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. Behind Humphrey is House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma; and behind Celler is Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. (AP Photo, File)

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark legislation into law on Aug. 6, 1965, months after marchers were beaten in Selma on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

It was March 7, 1965, that C

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