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4 August, 00:33

Why did congress pass the voting rights act of 1965?

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    It was passed in order to prevent racist people from southern states from banning African-Americans from voting. They had things like literacy tests or vote taxes or similar things that would pose a problem for African-Americans of the time and all these types of laws became prohibited and were declared unconstitutional by the congress.
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