On August 6, 1965, The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Act applied a nationwide prohibition of the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race or color. It outlawed discriminatory literacy tests, expanded voting rights for non-English speaking Americans, and appointed Federal examiners to oversee voter registration and elections. Read More
The law had an immediate impact. By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new African American voters had been registered, one-third by Federal examiners.
In this photo, LBJ signs the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders stand behind him.
(via ourpresidents)
Source: presidentialtimeline.org
242 Notes/ Hide
- strugglingforequality reblogged this from christopher212-blog
- notesfromthenight reblogged this from ourpresidents
- christopher212-blog reblogged this from ourpresidents
- imperialdynasti-blog reblogged this from hairtrending-blog
- mobilelene-blog liked this
- olucival reblogged this from pyracantha14
- iamaunicorn19-blog reblogged this from ourpresidents
- ironnyk reblogged this from ourpresidents
- dare2getup reblogged this from ourpresidents
- luvst0ned liked this
- awindandbooks liked this
- idolchowder-blog liked this
- jaynjax liked this
- lessonswithleah reblogged this from slicketts-blog
- iamaliveshesaid liked this
- paigeduffylewis reblogged this from ourpresidents and added:
Any American citizen’s right to vote should be protected. How are non-English speaking people citizens? How can they...
- samanthaln liked this
- nyanthonyy reblogged this from truth-has-a-liberal-bias and added:
Yay! A positive historical event that’s related to my birthday!
- ljupkaiv liked this
- coco-shanell reblogged this from todaysdocument
- krpnski-blog liked this
- keychev reblogged this from ourpresidents
- hutchiam reblogged this from ourpresidents
- anteco liked this
- kaiamar liked this
- lokisasylum liked this
- latinagabi liked this
- butchrosser liked this
- the-spangle-maker reblogged this from todaysdocument
- historicalmatters reblogged this from ourpresidents
- fuzkiaha liked this
- ourpresidents posted this
- Show more notes