Voting Rights for . . .
Acting in Obedience to our oath
Obeying the Constitution
"In such a case our duty must be clear to all of us. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. We have all sworn an oath before God to support and to defend that Constitution.
We must now act in obedience to that oath." by Lyndon B. Johnson in March 15, 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was made to ban racial discrimination in voting by the federal, state, and local governments.It was passed in 1965 after a century of deliberate and violent denial of the vote of African-Americans in the South and Latinos in the Southwest also the many years of entrenched electoral system that shut out citizens with limited English.The Voting Rights Act is often referred as "the most effective civil rights law ever enacted.