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Why was President Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech so important for the Civil Rights Movement?

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It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. .The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D.

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