6 ago 1965 ano - The Voting Rights Act of 1965

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1. This was a law passed to forbid racial discrimination in voting, and it outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes.
2. This law was passed on August 6, 1965.
3. Some important people involved included JFK and LBJ, as JFK originally supported it, but after his death, LBJ enacted it and signed it into law.
4. This happened in Washington, D.C.
5. One major cause was the Freedom Summer, which brought attention to the injustices black Americans faced in voting to the rest of the nation.
6. One major effect was the extreme increase in voter turnout in the South, with the percentage of black voters rising from just 6 percent to 59 percent in one year in just Mississippi.