HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965, Selma, Alabama

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 351
• Professor: Leonard Moore

Document Summary

The 1965 voting rights act, 1965 immigration act. These acts represented victories in this era, this intense movement from 1960-65 that culminated in the passing of these acts. Cra represented a completion of what the federal courts had started with brown vs education. Finally allowing the civil rights and citizenship laws that had been allowed by constitutional amendments that arose out of the civil war. Even when the cra was passed they wanted voting rights act, but it was still pushed off and considered too controversial. Voting issue is never separate/ it is always intertwined with the cra: sncc and king were very focused on voting rights act. Voting rights is an issue that aas are fighting for on a local level all across the south, it"s not something that springs up after 1964. 24th amendment: ratified in 1964 and outlined the poll tax, focused on one of the main tools used to disenfranchise aas.