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Why was the voting rights act of 1965 initiated?

Why was the voting rights act of 1965 initiated?
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Why was the voting rights act of 1965 initiated?

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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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