Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Passage of The voting Rights Act of 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson was an act long overdue in the United States. ... Throughout the history of the United States, including the provision in the Constitution of the United States’ Fifteenth amendment which guaranteed the rights of all Americans to vote, there has been no civil or federal ruling which was enforced by the Government of the United States to enfranchise the African American in this country. Not until The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was there put into place an enforced Federal statute that enabled the enfranchisement of the African American.