Voting Rights Act

基本解释

Within days of Bloody Sunday, president Johnson would present a bill to Congress that would gain passage later that year as the Voting Rights Act.
在血色星期天不久后，约翰逊总统向国会提交了一份议案，不久这项议案通过，这便是投票权法案。
IT IS one of America's greatest laws, and one of the least understood.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forced Southern states to let black Americans vote.
它是美国最伟大的法律之一，也是人们知之甚少的的法律之一——1965年通过的选举权法——强制美国南方诸州允许黑人进行投票。
Moreover, the Voting Rights Act, originally intended to prevent the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, makes it difficult to marginalise minority voters.
此外，最初为保护南方黑人选举权设立的《选举权法》，防止了对少数民族选民的边缘化。

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
随着选民登记的进行，和在1964年通过的投票权法案,这样的事愈演愈烈。
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And we need to keep this Voting Rights Act that has worked so well in place...
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Efforts to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act hit a surprising snag in Congress last week.
NPR: Voting Rights Act Renewal Stalled in Congress
The same could be said for the Voting Rights Act that followed in 1965.
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