6 AfricanAmerican members of the US House of Representative and no one in the
US senate. By 1971 there were 13 AfricanAmericans in the house and one who was apart if the US senate. After this act passed the 15th amendment ratified in
1970 prohibiting the state from denying any males vote based on their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. During the Civil Rights act many voting rights activists were subjected to various mistreatments and violence.
On March 7th in 1965 a fatal event occurred, many