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Voting Rights Act of 1965
An excerpt from The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

An excerpt from The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The excerpted pages provide a description of the Act. This description states what voter restrictions will be outlawed, how these will be assessed, who will oversee the cessation, and the requirements for these workers. This Act represents the legislative and legal goals of countless activists and others through two centuries who fought to achieve equality for African Americans and end legal discrimination towards people of color.

Citation Information
Excerpt from “The Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/f4f34b952ebab9b8685b32c7362e875f.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Purdue University via HathiTrust.
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Item 6 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Voting Rights Act of 1965

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A joint resolution proposing the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 1869.
A 1926 letter from William E. Borah to W. E. B. Du Bois about the Fifteenth Amendment.
An 1872 political cartoon called “One Vote Less,” which comments on racial violence during Reconstruction.
A poll-tax petition from 1930s Tennessee.
A 1958 citizenship test from the Georgia State Voter Registration Act.
An excerpt from The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act, 1965.
A television news clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the Summer Community Organization and Political Education project, June 1965.
A photograph of marchers on the third Selma to Montgomery civil rights march, March 25, 1965.
An excerpt from a television news broadcast in March 1965 in which Carl Sanders, the governor of Georgia, speaks on voting rights.
An excerpt from a 1975 report from the United States Commission on Civil Rights about the Voting Rights Act after ten years.
An excerpt from congressional hearings on voting rights from 1993.
The 2006 Act to Amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
An excerpt from a 2014 US Senate hearing on the Voting Rights Amendment Act.

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