Dems eye voting rights package to honor John Lewis | The effort would renew and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and could reach the floor before the August recess. politico.com/news/2020/07…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/shabuluba
πŸ“…︎ Jul 20 2020
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Number of House Republicans who voted in favor of: H.R. 6400, the 1965 Voting Rights Act: 112. H.R. 9, the 2006 bill to reauthorize it: 192. H.R. 4, yesterday’s bill to restore it: 1. Why? The GOP’s hopes depend on fewer people voting. twitter.com/AdamSchiff/st…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/BlueEagleFly
πŸ“…︎ Dec 08 2019
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In the aftermath of the Indian Citizenship Act (1924) and Voting Rights Act (1965), did U.S. politicians try to court the Native vote?

U.S. history is filled with government officials creating legal loopholes to prevent Native Americans in assorted regions from voting. Including after those laws. I am interested in whether the laws brought more attention to Native voters in places where the government allowed it.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/HotrodCow
πŸ“…︎ Mar 01 2020
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NAACP files lawsuit challenging Alabama voter ID law: the NAACP alleges that the law resulted in an estimated 280,000 registered voters becoming ineligible to vote, which is in violation of the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 jurist.org/paperchase/201…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GonzoNation
πŸ“…︎ Dec 05 2015
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Fourth suspect is identified in unsolved 1965 murder of white civil rights activist after three other men were acquitted when a witness lied in court in a case which spurred the Voting Rights Act dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/blitzballer
πŸ“…︎ Jun 22 2019
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Joe Biden praising John Stennis, a prominent racial segregationist β€œas a man of β€œcharacter and courage”. John Stennis Voted Against: Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Voting Rights Act of 1965 -MLK as a national holiday. He also signed the Southern Manifesto, I don’t see courage. twitter.com/hentely/statu…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/rundown9
πŸ“…︎ Apr 27 2019
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In honor of today, my great grandmothers voter registration card a year after LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Jurkboy1
πŸ“…︎ Nov 06 2018
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Keeping Black Voters in Their Place: "The Republicans who now control the legislatures and governorships in the Deep South are using the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 to create a system of political apartheid." nytimes.com/2013/11/05/op…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Dizzy_Slip
πŸ“…︎ Nov 06 2013
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed 53 years ago today. Keep fighting for fair and equal access to the ballot! history.com/topics/black-…
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πŸ“…︎ Aug 07 2018
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[WP] You are an FBI agent working on a case regarding computerized election fraud, but instead stumble upon evidence that no black person's vote has ever been tallied in the U.S. The voting rights act of 1965 was a sham to mitigate riots.
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πŸ“…︎ Mar 02 2015
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What are the differences if any between apartheid and the situation of the former slaves in the former CSA between the end of Reconstruction and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

US: The Federal Government defeated the rebels and during Reconstruction radical republicans and northerners ensured voting rights for the newly freed population. But after the 1876 election and the 'compromise' of 1877 southern democrats took over and ended the Reconstruction. Southern democrats started to systematically disenfranchise the black population: starting with the Georgia poll tax in 1877, from 1890 to 1908 Southern state legislatures passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments, and laws that made black (and white poor) voter registration and voting more difficult. Electoral rolls were dramatically reduced. Blacks in the South had to way 90 years to get voting rights again with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Separated but equal. Institutionalized racism.

South Africa: End of slavery in 1863 due to the United Kingdom's Slavery Abolition Act, but in 1892 the Franchise and Ballot Act established limits based on financial means and education of the black population. Sounds familiar? The Black population only got voting rights with the end of apartheid in the early 1990's.

If I'm forgetting something, let me know. I don't see any difference.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/cccbig
πŸ“…︎ Aug 19 2019
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To what extent was Lyndon Johnson responsible for the passage of the 1957 and 1964 Civil Rights Acts and the 1965 Voting Rights Act? Without him in government, how long would it have been before meaningful civil rights legislation passed?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ChairLampPrinter
πŸ“…︎ Sep 24 2019
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Justice Department finds Texas Voter ID Law in Violation of 1965 Voting Rights Act, Blocks Law Citing a Disproportionate Impact on Minority Voters bloomberg.com/news/2012-0…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/isleepinahammock
πŸ“…︎ Mar 12 2012
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Texas GOP Platform Calls for Repealing Voting Rights Act of 1965 thinkprogress.org/justice…
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πŸ“…︎ Jun 28 2012
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What realistically would occur if the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were repealed in toto?

I've read a lot of things about what theoretically could happen in worse case scenarios, but what are some realistic things that would actually and probably occur if both of these laws were totally repealed? Substantial changes? No substantial changes? Why? Why not?

Edit - I'm not looking for debate, just honest and sincere insight from those with bonafide knowledge and/or experience.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/argyle47
πŸ“…︎ Mar 26 2015
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President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. discuss tactics on how to introduce civil rights legislature to Congress. A few months later on May 26th, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. [3000x2002]
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πŸ‘€︎ u/sinbad-ass
πŸ“…︎ Apr 20 2013
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Texas GOP Calls for Repeal of 1965 Voting Rights Act dailykos.com/story/2012/0…
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@ABC: As congressional Democrats re-introduced a bill that seeks to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Rep. John Lewis remembered the civil rights era, warning that β€œthere are forces in America today trying to take us back to another time.” https://t.co/AmJjpJfjey https://t.co/CHYfBTKX2u mobile.twitter.com/ABC/st…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/-en-
πŸ“…︎ Feb 27 2019
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Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) will introduce legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA. thenation.com/blog/177962…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/rstevens94
πŸ“…︎ Jan 16 2014
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King In The Wilderness - Official Trailer (2018) | "This Documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life, from the vital role he played in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to his assassination in 1968." [2.14] youtu.be/aVGRg89DbyM
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Johnny_W94
πŸ“…︎ Mar 07 2018
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In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led marchers to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama to demand their right to vote. | When they got there, they were arrested. That arrest, and the police brutality that followed it, galvanized the nation and forced passage of the Voting Rights Act. commondreams.org/views/20…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/liberatetutemet
πŸ“…︎ Mar 12 2018
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Key portion of 1965 Voting Right Act ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS with a 5-4 margin nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/paininmylefteye
πŸ“…︎ Jun 25 2013
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In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led marchers to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama to demand their right to vote. | When they got there, they were arrested. That arrest, and the police brutality that followed it, galvanized the nation and forced passage of the Voting Rights Act. commondreams.org/views/20…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/megasoid
πŸ“…︎ Mar 12 2018
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So did they stop teaching the 1965 voting rights act too? Or are kids too stupid to make the correlation? Or does this woman just want something to bitch and complain about?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/MaulSyd
πŸ“…︎ Feb 10 2020
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TIL Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed, only 6.7% of African Americans in Mississippi were registered to vote epic.org/privacy/voting/r…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Priest_Dildos
πŸ“…︎ Jan 04 2017
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Just a reminder: many of the same GOP Congresspeople who oppose sensible gun control pushed to have the Voting Rights Act of 1965 repealed. They don't want you to have a voice, but they want you to have a gun.

They'll tell you Americans need the Second Amendment to stand up to "tyrannical government" but they don't want you to participate in peaceable change of government. Somehow requiring a license and background check for a deadly weapon is a government invasion of privacy, but requiring a license or ID to excercise one's right to vote is A-OK. Preventing people on the terror watch list from getting firearms is a subversion of due process, but preventing someone from voting simply because they don't drive is the only way to have fair elections.

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Texas Republican Party proposes repealing Voting Rights Act of 1965, returning to Gold Standard ed.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/tradez
πŸ“…︎ Jul 03 2012
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Fighting for the Right to Vote: From the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Today pfaw.org/report/fighting-…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Inuma
πŸ“…︎ May 16 2017
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36th President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King JR, Rosa Parks | Signing of the Voting Rights Act (Aug 6th, 1965) imgur.com/XNyE9aY
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πŸ“…︎ Feb 19 2017
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