Melissa Said:

how was the public agenda set for the voting rights act of 1965?

We Answered:

Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to ensure the voting rights of African Americans. Though the Constitution's 15th Amendment (passed 1870) had guaranteed the right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," African Americans in the South faced efforts to disenfranchise them, including poll taxes and literacy tests, as late as the 1960s, when the civil rights movement focused national attention on infringements of their voting rights; Congress responded with the Voting Rights Act, which prohibited Southern states from using literacy tests to determine eligibility to vote. Later laws prohibited literacy tests in all states and made poll taxes illegal in state and local elections.

Ben Said:

Voting rights Act 1965?

We Answered:

They were able to vote out of office those political jerks who discriminated against them because of their color.

Connie Said:

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

We Answered:

C) The Act codifies and effectuates the 15th Amendment's permanent guarantee that, throughout the nation, no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color.

* It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.