Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Voting Rights Act of 1965



Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Eighty-ninth Congress of the United States of America At the First Session. Begun and held at the city of Washington, on Monday, the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five

AN ACT: To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Voting Rights Act of 1965". #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS

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