Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. §§ 1973–1973aa-6) is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting ...
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1965_voting_rights_act.htm
Background - Legislative history - Provisions - Criticisms
Our Documents - Voting Rights Act (1965)
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100
Citation: An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes, August 6, 1965; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions ...
Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Department of Justice
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro_b.php
The Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1965 Enactment. By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but ...
Please explain the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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I have all these links, I am looking for something in laymans terms to explain exactly what is in these links.,
The clearest explanations, in my opinion, are in the historylearningsite link and in the Wikipedia link.
Let us know what is in either or both of those that you don't understand.
Let us know what is in either or both of those that you don't understand.
So I understand correctly, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is outlawed discrimatory voting rights towards African Americans. Is that correct? Should there be more?
Here's the essence:
It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. As far as Johnson was concerned, all you needed to vote was American citizenship and the registration of your name on an electoral list. No form of hindrance to this would be tolerated by the law courts.
It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. As far as Johnson was concerned, all you needed to vote was American citizenship and the registration of your name on an electoral list. No form of hindrance to this would be tolerated by the law courts.
I'll correct your wording for you:
... the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discrimatory voting rules aimed at any Americans.
Do you see the differences between what you originally wrote and what the law actually did?
... the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discrimatory voting rules aimed at any Americans.
Do you see the differences between what you originally wrote and what the law actually did?
IN your wording, you took the word afican off. Why. Wasn't this act geared to the voting right for African American?
It was geared so that NO American citizens over the age of 21 (later changed to 18) could be discriminated against regarding registering to vote or voting itself.
NO American ... not African Americans, not Hispanic Americans, not Chinese Americans, or any other group you want to name. If a person is a citizen, he/she has the right to vote. Period.
NO American ... not African Americans, not Hispanic Americans, not Chinese Americans, or any other group you want to name. If a person is a citizen, he/she has the right to vote. Period.
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