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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.

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On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After many demonstrations from voting rights activists against Jim-Crow era segregation laws in the South, the government outlawed institutional discrimination, including voting practices such as literacy tests. As well, it outlawed the idea of "separate but equal", essentially ending racial segregation.

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