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    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed...
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    The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 (H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The...
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    Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each of these amendments coincided with an impending expiration of some of the Act's special...
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  • This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised...
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  • Shelby County v. Holder (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which...
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    laws in the form of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Following...
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    "one man, one vote" electoral system. Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Twenty-fourth Amendment, and related laws, voting rights have been legally...
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    they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement. Since the late 19th century...
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    act through eliminating certain loopholes in it, and to establish additional provisions. Aside from addressing voting rights, the Civil Rights Act of...
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    Shaw v. Reno (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court)
    which stated that one can only vote if their grandfather voted. This changed with the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed these racially...
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    Montgomery marches, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968, marked significant milestones...
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  • The Washington Voting Rights Act (WVRA) is a state law in the U.S. state of Washington that aims to protect voting rights and prevent discrimination. It...
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  • Voting rights of citizens in Guam differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Guam...
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  • Electoral fraud (redirect from Voting fraud)
    until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Felons have been disenfranchised in many states as a strategy to prevent African Americans from voting. Groups may...
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    enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the...
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  • Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    Court case related to voting rights established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), and specifically the applicability of Section 2's general provision...
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  • Allen v. Milligan (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The appellees and respondants argued that Alabama's congressional...
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  • funding List of short titles Unruh Civil Rights Act, a 1959 Californian law prohibiting discrimination in housing Voting Rights Act of 1965 This article...
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    Emancipation (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2021)
    States the Civil Rights movement culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which can...
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    Reconstruction Amendments (category Politics of the American Civil War)
    decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Reconstruction Amendments...
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  • South Carolina v. Katzenbach (category History of voting rights in the United States)
    decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which...
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  • federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (which would restore portions of the federal Voting Rights Act that were...
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    managed in most of the cases to win much higher prices. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the United States Department of Justice sent federal...
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    Clarence J. Brown (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    1965. Long representing conservative views, near the end of his life, he helped gain House passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which he voted for...
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  • California to prove that their votes are being diluted in "at-large" elections by expanding on the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Thornburg v. Gingles...
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    Suffrage (redirect from Voting rights)
    states of the United States of America before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, poll taxes, literacy and other...
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  • the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. Many Latino voters, including Puerto Ricans, were unable to cast their vote between the time the VRA of 1965 was...
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    right to vote but would have to meet standards beyond citizenship. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 directly addressed and eliminated most voting qualifications...
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    Montgomery marches of 1965 and voter registration reform drives, focusing in Selma, to enable African Americans to vote (see Voting Rights Act). They had been...
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    Ramsey Clark (redirect from VoteToImpeach)
    of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. As attorney general during part of the Vietnam War, Clark oversaw the prosecution of the...
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