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Bookmark or Share- Voting Rights Act of 1965 ‑ Definition, Summary & Significance - HISTORYThe Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising...
- Voting Rights Act (1965) - National ArchivesThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most significant statutory change in the relationship between the federal and state governments in the area of voting since the Reconstruction period following the Civil War; and it was immediately challenged in the courts.
- What Is The Voting Rights Act? : NPRWithin a few years of its passage, the Voting Rights Act had paved the way for thousands of Black and brown voters to go to the ballot box. Bipartisan majorities in Congress reauthorized the...
- History of the U.S. Voting Rights Act - National GeographicHow the U.S. Voting Rights Act was won—and why it’s under fire today. In 1965, this historic civil rights law prohibited discrimination against Black voters.
- Voting Rights Act | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaVoting Rights Act is a piece of U.S. legislation (1965) that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the United States Constitution.
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