https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa Voting Rights Act en-us 2020-02-20 18:47:09 UTC 2026-02-26 04:06:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448244676 LBJ signs Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965]]> 2020-02-20 18:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448244676 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448251602 2020-02-20 19:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448251602 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448787288 The voting rights act of 1965 was necessitated by the fact that the vast majority of African Americans in the south could not vote. Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, many civil rights activists believe that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was still necessary due to the denial of the right to vote of blacks in many southern communities. ]]> 2020-02-21 19:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448787288 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448787492 Organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality had been active in registering African-Americans to vote in the South with little success prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ]]> 2020-02-21 19:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448787492 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448788049 One of the reasons the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was so important is it helped to eliminate some of the mechanisms that have been used to suppress the right to vote for African-Americans. ]]> 2020-02-21 19:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448788049 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448788604 This is also including the literacy test and the grandfather clause and with the passage of the 24^th Amendment the dreaded poll tax. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorizes the United States government to oversee elections in southern states where there’s been a history of record of voter suppression. ]]> 2020-02-21 19:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448788604 1uqqf https://padlet.com/1uqqf/4ff41wh56tqa/wish/448788953 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King considered the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be an essential piece of legislation to guarantee civil rights for African-Americans.

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