Historian James Patterson explores a year that he says began with a sense of optimism but that ended with a bitterly divided country and a conservative resurgence that would define later decades. In 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, sent additional U.S. troops into Vietnam and presided over the race riots in major cities. The Bancroft Prize winning historian discusses the pivotal year with former Howard University History Chair and author of "Comfort & Pity," Daryl Scott. Mr. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University.
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