What was an immediate impact of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed barriers such as literacy tests and authorized federal oversight of voter registration in areas with a history of discrimination. As an immediate result, about a quarter of a million Black Americans registered to vote. The act did not grant Chinese Americans citizenship or give Washington, DC, residents the right to vote for president; those changes came through other laws or amendments.

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