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Voting Rights Act - Black History - HISTORY
Find out more about the history of Voting Rights Act, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 at 50: LBJ, MLK and How It Came to Be - Time
This landmark legislation was signed on Aug. 6, 1965. Here's how we got there.
http://time.com/3985603/voting-rights-act-1965-history/
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Martin Luther King and Selma's 1965 Voting Rights Campaign - EthicsDaily
On Jan. 2, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass meeting at Brown Chapel in Selma, Ala. This meeting kicked off the involvement of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma's voting rights campaign.
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/martin-luther-king-and-selmas-1965-voting-rights-campaign-cms-12172
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1965 Voting Rights Act Gallery - HistoryNet
On August 6th, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, claiming, “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice.”
http://www.historynet.com/1965-voting-rights-act-gallery.htm
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Voting Rights Act (1965) - King Encyclopedia
On 6 August 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, calling the day ‘‘a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield’’ (Johnson, ‘‘Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda’’).
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_voting_rights_act_1965/
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Article)
Learn about the civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination in jobs, education, housing, public accommodations, and voting.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-civil-rights-movement/a/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-and-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965
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Remembering Dr. King's Defense of Voting Rights - American Civil Liberties Union
During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights groups and almost a thousand student volunteers converged in Mississippi to register African-American voters.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/remembering-dr-kings-defense-voting-rights
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Voting Rights - Digital History
The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in employment and public accommodations. But many African Americans were denied an equally fundamental constitutional right, the right to vote.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3330
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Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights - Case - Harvard Business School
In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South.
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50383
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For King, the Right to Vote was Sacred - CNN
Every third Monday in January we gather as Americans to commemorate the values and beliefs -- as well as the ultimate sacrifice -- of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/opinion/brazile-mlk-voting-rights/index.html
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Wikipedia
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
