Answer:
Though the US already had passed the 15th and 19th amendments allowing equal voting rights for all, some states imposed voting taxes (Virginia until 1966) and literacy tests to continue to prevent African-Americans and other minorities from voting. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, made taxing poll booths, literacy tests and other barriers such as discrimination and violence that African-Americans were still facing in order to gain equal voting rights illegal.⊂: