EVENT INFORMATION

6
Ougùstùs
1965

United States enacts the Voting Rights Act

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The act targeted discriminatory barriers that had denied Black citizens the vote, especially in the South. Its passage followed sustained local organizing and state violence against voting-rights activists, demonstrating how formal emancipation had not secured equal political power.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Fannie Lou Hamer

John Lewis

voting-rights organizers

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United States Congress

federal government