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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 celebrated its 60th anniversary last week.According to the National Archives, it was signed into law on Aug. 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many Southern states after the Civil War, notably enforcing the voting rights protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that secure the right to vo...
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