TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 13 P40

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 13 P40 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | CIVIL RIGHTS From Segregation to Civil Rights VOtinG Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a sweeping federal law that seeks to prevent voting discrimination based on race color or membership in a language minority group. The act was passed in the aftermath of one of the more violent episodes in the history of the civil rights movement. In 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of civil rights supporters on a march to Selma Alabama to demand voting rights. They were met by police violence that resulted in the deaths of several marchers. The Selma violence galvanized voting rights supporters in Congress. President Lyndon B. Johnson responded by introducing the Voting Rights Act the most sweeping piece of civil rights law in one hundred years. Congress enacted the measure five months later. The passage of the Voting Rights Act was a watershed event in . history. For the first time the federal government undertook voting reforms that had traditionally been left to the states. The act prohibits the states and their political subdivisions from imposing voting qualifications or prerequisites to voting or from imposing standards practices or procedures that deny or curtail the right of a . citizen to vote because of race color or membership in a language minority group. The act was extended in 1970 and again in 1982 and 2006 when its provisions were given an additional term of 25 years. Southern states challenged the legislation as a dangerous attack on states rights but in South Carolina v. Katzenbach 383 . 301 86 S. Ct. 803 15 L. Ed. 2d 769 1966 the . Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the act even though it was in the words of Chief Justice Earl Warren inventive. The initial act covered the seven states in the South that had used poll taxes literacy tests and other devices to obstruct registration by African Americans. Under the law a federal court can appoint federal examiners who are authorized to place qualified persons on .

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