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What are two things the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished?

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poll taxes and literrrary tests were illegal
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User Mostafa Aghajani
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It removed the use of poll taxes and it made literacy tests illegal in voting

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on August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act . The bill removed barriers that prevented African Americans in the south from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This led to the ban of the poll taxes, literacy tests, and other practices that prevented southern blacks from voting.

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