# 3937b - 2005 37c To Form a More Perfect Union: Voting Rights Act
37¢ 1965 Voting Rights Act
To Form a More Perfect Union
City: Washington, DC
Printing Method: Lithographed
Color: Multicolored
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The 15th and 19th Amendments to the United States Constitution granted black citizens the right to vote. However, Southern registration boards used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other strategies to deny this right.
In the meantime, the murder of voting-rights activists in Mississippi in 1964 brought national attention to the issue. Then, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, Selma, Alabama, residents and supporters marched to demand an equal right to vote. Alabama police used tear gas and clubs against them.
The voting rights bill Johnson sent to Congress removed the right of states to restrict who could vote in elections. The Act was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress and signed into law on August 6, 1965.
Click here to read the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
37¢ 1965 Voting Rights Act
To Form a More Perfect Union
City: Washington, DC
Printing Method: Lithographed
Color: Multicolored
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The 15th and 19th Amendments to the United States Constitution granted black citizens the right to vote. However, Southern registration boards used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other strategies to deny this right.
In the meantime, the murder of voting-rights activists in Mississippi in 1964 brought national attention to the issue. Then, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, Selma, Alabama, residents and supporters marched to demand an equal right to vote. Alabama police used tear gas and clubs against them.
The voting rights bill Johnson sent to Congress removed the right of states to restrict who could vote in elections. The Act was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress and signed into law on August 6, 1965.
Click here to read the Voting Rights Act of 1965.