How Did The Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Introduction:
The Voting Rights is known as one of the most successful parts of civil rights legislation in the American history. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped accomplish a level of colored enfranchisement that had seemed futile since the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment approximately a century earlier. Even though the Voting Rights Act withstood a number of Constitutional challenges over the many years, the United States Supreme Court held that the code which determines that jurisdictions are subject to preclearance is expired and unconstitutional. With that being said, federal government, President Johnson, enacted the Voting Rights Act, on August 6, 1965.
Voting Rights before the New Legislation: …show more content…
Voters such as Latinos were facing similar restrictions to voting in the state Texas and other parts of the Southwest, as well as the Asian Americans and Native Americans in the West. Unfortunately after the enactment of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, in 1870, that allowed all men, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of enslavement the right to vote, plenty other states still continue to practice many schemes to prohibit people of color from voting, including; “poll taxes, the disenfranchisement of former inmates, intimidation, threats, literacy tests, and even violence”, according to (The History of VRA, n.d.). Although states were still restricting people of color from voting, states and localities were not challenged by the federal laws in the establishment and administrations of their voting requirements: not until 1965, when it was decided to be
Introduction:
The Voting Rights is known as one of the most successful parts of civil rights legislation in the American history. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped accomplish a level of colored enfranchisement that had seemed futile since the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment approximately a century earlier. Even though the Voting Rights Act withstood a number of Constitutional challenges over the many years, the United States Supreme Court held that the code which determines that jurisdictions are subject to preclearance is expired and unconstitutional. With that being said, federal government, President Johnson, enacted the Voting Rights Act, on August 6, 1965.
Voting Rights before the New Legislation: …show more content…
Voters such as Latinos were facing similar restrictions to voting in the state Texas and other parts of the Southwest, as well as the Asian Americans and Native Americans in the West. Unfortunately after the enactment of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, in 1870, that allowed all men, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of enslavement the right to vote, plenty other states still continue to practice many schemes to prohibit people of color from voting, including; “poll taxes, the disenfranchisement of former inmates, intimidation, threats, literacy tests, and even violence”, according to (The History of VRA, n.d.). Although states were still restricting people of color from voting, states and localities were not challenged by the federal laws in the establishment and administrations of their voting requirements: not until 1965, when it was decided to be