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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a United States law, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in August 1965 after the Selma to Montgomery marches, that prohibited racial discrimination in voting. It suspended literacy tests and placed federal oversight on the states and counties with histories of discrimination, leading to a dramatic rise in Black voter registration in the South; a nationwide ban on such tests followed in 1970.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/voting-rights-act-of-1965
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