forty years ago, president lyndon Johnson vowed to end the Jim crow machinery that kept African Americans away from the polls. join neal coman and guests for stories of the voting rights act.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 basically said that no person should be denied the right to vote because of color or race. This piece of legislation is known as a landmark civil rights law. This law...
It protected Blacks from being discriminated against at the polls (and even before they arrived there). Many discriminatory practices were in place for 95 years throughout the South that took the...
It was that all citizens of the United States who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school...