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3 days ago · The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. [7][8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. [7] .
1 day ago · Democrats and voting rights activists had warned that some states would enact such laws after a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision eliminated a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
1 day ago · For example, a four-bill package which would mirror the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 has passed through the Michigan Senate. Passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
1 day ago · And the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had both brought the vote to thousands of disenfranchised African Americans and pushed new divisions into U.S. politics.
11 hours ago · Native Americans were not fully enfranchised until 1924 with the Indian Citizenship Act, and it wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that many discriminatory barriers preventing African Americans from voting were removed. Willie Velasquez was a key figure in expanding voting rights for Mexican Americans in Texas.
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1 day ago · The U.S. should protect minority voting rights the way the Voting Rights Act of 1965 intended, Hasen said. The Supreme Court has been “whittling away at how it has been interpreting the Voting ...
1 day ago · These reforms create a strong model for voter equity across the nation, and demonstrate a rising public desire for nationwide protections after decades under the conservative extremist-packed U.S. Supreme Court that stripped the protections of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
