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Voting Rights Act |
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Voting Rights ActAct passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to ensure the voting rights of African Americans. Though the Constitution's 15th Amendment (passed 1870) had guaranteed the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” African Americans in the South faced efforts to disenfranchise them, including poll taxes and literacy tests, as late as the 1960s, when the civil rights movement focused national attention on infringements of their voting rights; Congress responded with the Voting Rights Act, which prohibited Southern states from using literacy tests to determine eligibility to vote. Later laws prohibited literacy tests in all states and made poll taxes illegal in state and local elections. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That's what activists claimed in court last fall in a federal lawsuit charging Gratz's group with violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other tactics used in the South to keep blacks from voting. The Senate has started hearings on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). |
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