The act was signed into action on August 6, 1965. President Johnson and Martin Luther king and other civil rights activists were also present
First of all, the Voting Rights Act was in 1965 NOT 1969. The Voting Rights Act was the law that was passed to ban racial dicrimnation in voting practices by the federal government as well as the state and local goverment.
African Americans
The 65 voting rights act wasn't an amendment, but a bill passed by congress.
It was that all citizens of the United States who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; any constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any State or Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding.
White males.
The Voting Rights Act was written in 1965. The Act was written to help African-Americans in voting and their rights. The bill was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson.
Voting Rights Act
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and he signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965
Daniel gentry
the Voting Rights Act
Because black people wanted to vote and the whites would not allow them to. So President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (brought by JFK, but signed by LBJ) abolished segregation in public accommodations; Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed by LBJ, abolished unfair voting practices (too many to name); and the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax on voting the year before (1964).
The Voting Rights Act of 1964, was signed into law in August, 1965, making various tactics such as literacy tests and poll taxes as a condition for voting. The practices had been set in place by Southern states after the Civil War to deliberately take away the Constitutional voting rights of African Americans.
Yes, that is part of the voting rights act.
First of all, the Voting Rights Act was in 1965 NOT 1969. The Voting Rights Act was the law that was passed to ban racial dicrimnation in voting practices by the federal government as well as the state and local goverment.
African Americans