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This 5 page paper discusses the history and provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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an overview of the Act, including an introduction to it, reasons for its passage, and the provisions it contains. Discussion The Voting Rights Act was first adopted in 1965 and
then extended in 1970, 1975 and 1982; it is "generally considered the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the United States Congress" ("Introduction to Federal Voting
Rights Laws"). The purpose of the act is to codify the principle that "no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color" ("Introduction to
Federal Voting Rights Laws"). The federal government found it necessary to pass the act because each state, particularly in the South, has a different set of laws regulating voting, and
most of them were used to keep blacks from the polls ("Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws"). In some states, excessive literacy requirements were demanded; in others, irregular practices at
the polls were reported; but it wasnt until "compelling evidence of continuing interference with attempts by African American citizens to exercise their right to vote" was revealed that Congress passed
what was very far-reaching legislation ("Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws"). The chose this approach because it was too time consuming and expensive to consider case-by-case litigation ("Introduction to Federal
Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Before the Voting Rights Act"). It was left to the states to
decide what criteria were to be used to determine who could vote, and while in the North some states permitted "a small number of free black men to register and
vote," in the South, "slavery and restrictive state laws and practices led the franchise to be exercised almost exclusively by white males" ("Before the Voting Rights Act"). In 1867, Congress
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