Question 7 • CA-Ethnic Studies
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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