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August 6th 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law giving Black Americans the right to vote.

Considered as among the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. History, the VRA aimed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.

Congress should honor the original intent of the Voting Rights Act by passing several bills that have been introduced to re-establish the federal oversight authority that had been struck by the court.

However, the decision was not an outright victory for supporters of the Voting Rights Act, as the court sent the law back to a lower court to be amended.

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, which has been called the single most effective civil rights law ever passed by Congress.