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By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote." [10] After its enactment in 1965, the law immediately decreased racial discrimination in voting. The ...
The act was pressured by high-ranking officials and interest groups to be passed, which it was passed on October 3, 1965. [27] President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 act into law at the foot of the Statue of Liberty , ending preferences for white immigrants dating to the 18th century.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64] Utah changes wording of their law and restores voting rights to all people who have completed their prison sentence for a felony. [62]
The political realignment allowed House leaders to alter rules that had allowed Southern Democrats to kill New Frontier and civil rights legislation in committee, which aided efforts to pass Great Society legislation. In 1965, the first session of the Eighty-Ninth Congress created the core of the Great Society.
Bolden (1980), held that racially discriminatory laws violated the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments only if the laws were enacted or maintained for a discriminatory purpose; thus, showing that a law simply had a discriminatory effect was insufficient to state a constitutional claim of discrimination. The Court further held that Section 2 ...
Passed in 1965, this law prohibited the use of literacy tests as a requirement to register to vote. It provided for recourse for local voters to federal oversight and intervention, plus federal monitoring of areas that historically had low voter turnouts to ensure that new measures were not taken against minority voters.
"The immigration and nationality (McCarran-Walter) Act of 1952, as Amended to 1965." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 367.1 (1966): 127–136. Chin, Gabriel J. "The civil rights revolution comes to immigration law: A new look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965." North Carolina Law Review 75 (1996 ...
It is passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson August 6. March 18 - A United States federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama, to petition for "redress of grievances". March 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins.