Voting+rights+act-Shawn

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===﻿ The 1965 Voting Rights Act came upon us after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But the '64 Act led to great violence in the south with racists starting campaigns against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s success in getting African Americans the right to vote. After seeing the need to eliminate this southern violence, President Johnson decided to step in. Johnson introduced to Congress in one of his best speeches the idea of the Voting Rights Act. === ===Congress realized Johnson was committed to the cause. They realized that if they couldn't support it, then the people would see it as the Congress's failure only. === ===The act passed and gave people the right to vote no matter what your acedemic ability or wealth may be. Johnson stated that all you should need to vote is American citizenship and to be registered on the electoral list. It had a huge impact, one of the impacts being that more African Americans were elected into public office. Another impact was that it helped move along the civil rights cause, which Johnson took credit for. === ===Then in 1968, there was another Civil Rights Act passed. It got rid of racial descrimination in the selling or renting of homes. Racist realestate signs were no longer tolerated in a world so effected by the unwanted Vietnam War. ===

This was an issue not discussed very much. 96-CP