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History of Federal Voting Rights Laws
US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division · 2023
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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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