History of Federal Voting Rights Laws
History of Federal Voting Rights Laws (2023)2023 · Web page · The Voting Rights Act of 1965EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0880 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Epistocracy · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“The US Voting Rights Act, signed on 6 August 1965, prohibited the use of literacy tests that had been used to deny Black citizens the vote; critics of epistocracy cite this history as evidence that knowledge tests can be used for exclusion.”
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