August 6: Black Americans Got Their Guaranteed Right To Vote Today in 1965

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August 6: Black Americans Got Their Guaranteed Right To Vote Today in 1965

African-Americans won the guaranteed right to vote on Aug. 6,1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed theVoting Rights Act. The bill banned restrictions on African-Americans that were designed to deny Blacks their right to vote in federal, state and local elections. At the polls, often potential voters would be “told by election officials that they […]

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