Voting Rights Act of 1965

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1. A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. It authorized the enrollment of voters by federal registrars in states where fewer than fifty percent of the eligible voters were registered or voted. All such states were in the South.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

The fruit of that sacrifice was the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

His advocacy work also paved the way for the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

Callais, a case that concerns the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

Potentially the most important part of this plan hangs on the fate of Section Two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025

President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King one of the pens used to sign the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman