Voting Rights Act of 1965
Legislation that charged the federal government with helping disenfranchised African Americans in the South regain the right to vote.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Legislation that charged the federal government with helping disenfranchised African Americans in the South regain the right to vote.
- Kate Tuttle
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
