“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Today
is the anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act
of 1965. It is a is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United
States that prohibits discrimination in voting.
