The Voting Rights Act ended <u>racial discrimination in voting.</u>
The Voting Rights Act was legislation signed on August 6, 1965, by the American President Lyndon B. Johnson. It aimed to enforce the voting rights, primarily of black people, guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment (1870). The Act was enacted mainly due to the discrimination that some states were practicing against African American.
Farmers were facing many problems in the late 1800s. These problems included overproduction, low crop prices, high interest rates, high transportation costs, and growing debt
