The Voting Right Act of1965

The Voting Right Act of1965

Introduction

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is an important landmark in the United States national legislation which prohibits voting inequality and discrimination. This act prohibits the local and state governments to impose any qualification or prerequisite for the voting or any procedures, practices or standards for the voting qualification. This was done with the 15th Amendment of the act. Particularly the act was used by the Congress to pass the literacy tests so that the practice of qualified voters' requirement must be outlawed for the registration of votes, a main way from which African Americans were prohibited to cast their votes. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into the law who had signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 into the law and made it a landmark (justice.gov).

Before the Voting Act 1865

In 1865, the civil war ended in the United States. The freedom and equality of African Americans would have been assured by the President Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. This was the paperwork but not every citizen marked African Americans as their equal. The rights of the freed slaves were decided by every Southern state. Many African American were not able to cast their votes because they were stopped by barriers.

For the promotion of civil rights of black, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAAP) in 1909 which also included the security for the impartial suffrage. The success of NAAP was not huge although judicial rulings were received by the association given by the court along with some legislative successes. In early 1960s, many Southern legislators immediately plotted other ways to disfranchise the southern blacks (justice.gov).

After the election of 1964, many civil rights organizations united themselves so that they can force a legislation to be ...