{"id":5553,"date":"2015-09-18T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:24:41","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-voting-rights-act-takes-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/50th-anniversary-of-voting-rights-act-takes-a-big-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act Takes a Big Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 &#8212; considered by many to be the most effective piece of civil rights law ever passed in the United States. During the 50 years since its passage, it has been renewed by Congress several times without much alteration or resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the act was to make it unlawful to discriminate against minorities by state and local governments who had for all times made it difficult, if not impossible, for blacks and other minorities to register to vote and thus to vote at all. Before 1965, the registration of blacks in most of the Civil War southern states was below 10%. By the end of 1965 after the passage of the act, approximately 250,000 African Americans were newly registered voters. Just 3 years later, more than 700,000 blacks would be registered to vote. Steadily the numbers increased over the years.<\/p>\n<p>And in fact &#8212; and most important &#8212; African Americans and other minorities in the South were being elected to local state and federal political positions. These advances took place even in the face of efforts to curtail registration and to gerrymander districts into places where blacks and other minorities were unelectable mostly because of the racial makeup of these districts where whites would never or most likely not vote for a black candidate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/50th-anniversary-of-voting-rights-act-takes-a-big-hit\/#more-5553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 &#8212; considered by many to be the most effective piece of civil rights law ever passed in the United States. During the 50 years since its passage, it has been renewed by Congress several times without much alteration or resistance. 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