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Related Link: The Senate Passes the Voting Rights Act
credit: An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes, August 6, 1965; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act on August 4, 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law on August 6, 1965.
