50-Year Anniversary - The Voting Rights Act

June 30, 2015

Join us in the 50-year Anniversary of the U.S. Voting Act signed August 6, 1965.

Action steps are being put in place to commemorate this law. This law was necessary to help assure/ensure that African Americans could vote. Since then the public square continues to fight the behind-the-scene racial stoppage for voting by Caucasians of various points of view.

The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States

15th Amendent

Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote