voting rights act
- Created by: _Courtney
- Created on: 14-11-17 20:46
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- VOTING RIGHTS ACT, 1870
- male black Americans given right to vote
- some states had made them take an unfair literacy test and taxed them but THIS WAS REMOVED
- resulted in more than 65,000 new voters
- ensured federal agents could monitor registration to step in if their was discrimination
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