History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1987 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Voting Rights Act
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The idea
On August sixth, nineteen sixty-five, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed literacy tests and sent federal examiners to register voters in covered jurisdictions, the National Archives records.
In practice
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. present at the signing, as the anchor notes.
Where people slip
The Yawp calls the Acts of nineteen sixty-four and nineteen sixty-five indispensable legal preconditions for equality.
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