1. Civil Rights: Brown V. Board of Ed to failure of ERA
... the U.S. Attorney General the right to challenge poll taxes as a means of qualification in state and local elections. In Harper V. Virginia Board of Elections, 1966, poll taxes are abandoned completely. (Campbell, 884-886). The Civil Rights Movement wanted congress to pass a voting rights law that would end discrimination against African Americans. In the early 1960's. voting registration for blacks in the ... Harper V. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966. Due to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 there was an enormous increase in the number of black voters in the southern states. (Campbell,...
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