Voting Rights Act

By Admin ~ October 26th, 2009 @ 8:51 pm

Aug. 10 1965

Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.
By Thomas Jackson
editor@coastguardreport.org


Civil Rights Report

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