Video: 'President Johnson's Meeting with Governor George Wallace, 3/13/65. MP538.'

(Saturday, March 13, 1965, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson told Gov. George C. Wallace Alabama today that police brutality in Selma, Alabama, “just must not be repeated” and that federal force would be used if necessary to protect African-Americans there.

Johnson also said he would send to Congress on Monday (Mar. 15, 1965) a sweeping, bipartisan bill to erase all discrimination against citizens seeking to register and vote.

Video: 'American Experience - Lyndon B. Johnson (PBS Documentary)' (Mar. 13, 1965, at 23:02)