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The legacy — and efficacy — of the Civil Rights Act on its 60th anniversary
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lerone Martin, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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