Voting Rights Act Of 1965

6 October 2022
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march on Birmingham
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King hosted myriad nonviolent protesting activities to fill jail with protesters, Bill Conner began violent resistance to protesters
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congress of racial equality
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an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
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voting rights act of 1965
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signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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who put the voting rights act into place
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president Johnson
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what day did the voting rights act come out
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august 6th 1965