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The Voting Rights Act

by Richard M. Valelly

United StatesHistorySuffrageAfrican AmericansMinoritiesUnited states, politics and governmentUnited states, politics and government, juvenile literature

Examines the Voting Rights Act which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, and describes the events leading up to it, the evolution of voting rights in the U.S., disenfranchisement of African Americans after Reconstruction, and the impact of this legislation.

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Book data: Open Library