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The federal voting rights laws passed in the 1950s and 1960s were designed to

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The correct answer is remove racial barriers to voting

Although African-American people had the constitutional right to vote, they couldn't vote because they either had literacy test to pass or had poll taxes to pay which they couldn't so they were legally segregated and not allowed to vote. These laws abolished all such practices and all people were given equal voting rights.
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