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This Day in History: Voting Rights Act signed into law
On this date, forty four years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the “National Voting Rights Act of 1965.” The Act was intended to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It did so by outlawing disfranchisement … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Civil Rights, In the News, Politics, Race Relations
Tagged 1960s, 1965, civil rights, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, law, Politics, suffrage, vote, voting, voting rights act
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