#OnThisDay in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a powerful address to Congress and a nationwide television audience, urging them to pass a new voting rights bill. This legislation would later be known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his historic speech, he proclaimed, “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.” Johnson also referenced the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” underscoring the collec