Positives of the civil rights movement (Voting Rights Act Of 1965)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark act in America that aimed to conquer the systemic barriers holding back African Americans and other groups of minority from using their right to vote. Serving as an extension of both the Civil Rights Movement and the Act of 1965 , it played a primitive role in ensuring political equality for millions of U.S. citizens who were being actively stripped of their full right as an American. The passage of the Voting Rights Act represented not only legal victory, but a positive shift in our political and social dynamic that empowered communities and led to even greater changes in American democracy. Prior to the Voting Rights Act, these rights were heavily restricted by various discriminatory tactics, especially in the south. Despite the 15th Amendment, which had been passed in 1870 guaranteeing voting rights regardless of ethnicity. Black people in the South were still being disenfranchised through practices such as poll taxes w...
