Back to archive

Image: Wikimedia Commons, from ourdocuments.gov (opens in a new tab). Public domain (work of the United States federal government).
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Overview
Landmark legislation prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
Summary from the homepage design; not yet verified.
Publication details
- Type
- Legislation
- Author
- United States
- Year
- 1965
Citation
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As written in the source bibliography.
Read the source
Open external source (opens in a new tab)en.wikipedia.org
Cited in
Related concepts
Law & Justice
Legal systems, rights, and state power
Concept tags are provisional.
Related sources
Race, Racism, and American Law: Leading Cases and Materials, 2023
Aspen Publishing, Frederick, MD
Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government against the Negro People
Civil Rights Congress, New York