Voting Rights Act of 1965 (US)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965_(US)

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Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:United_States_federal_law
gptkbp:affectedStates	gptkb:Alabama gptkb:Alaska gptkb:Arizona gptkb:Georgia gptkb:Louisiana gptkb:Mississippi gptkb:South_Carolina gptkb:Texas gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:amendedBy	1970 1975 1982 1992 2006
gptkbp:category	Voting rights in the United States 1965 in American law Civil rights legislation
gptkbp:citation	gptkb:Pub.L._89–110
gptkbp:codifiedIn	gptkb:52_U.S.C._§§_10301–10314
gptkbp:dateEnacted	August 6, 1965
gptkbp:effectOfShelbyCountyDecision	Section 4(b) coverage formula invalidated Section 5 preclearance effectively suspended
gptkbp:enactedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:enforcedBy	gptkb:U.S._Department_of_Justice gptkb:Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:has_landmark_case	gptkb:Shelby_County_v._Holder
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Voting Rights Act of 1965 (US)
gptkbp:impact	increased African American voter registration increased minority political participation
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
gptkbp:locationSigned	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:nickname	gptkb:VRA
gptkbp:opposedBy	Southern legislators
gptkbp:prohibits	literacy tests for voting poll taxes in federal elections
gptkbp:purpose	prohibit racial discrimination in voting
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 gptkb:Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution gptkb:Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:renewable	1970 1975 1982 2006
gptkbp:section	Section 2 Section 4 Section 5 Section 203
gptkbp:section5Preclearance	required certain jurisdictions to obtain federal approval before changing voting laws
gptkbp:signedBy	gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson
gptkbp:supportedBy	gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. gptkb:NAACP gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
gptkbp:SupremeCourtDecision	Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
gptkbp:title	gptkb:An_Act_to_enforce_the_fifteenth_amendment_to_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States,_and_for_other_purposes
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Suffrage
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6