Answer: In 1965, in the seven states of the old confederacy covered by the voting rights act (vra), approximately 29.3 percent of the eligible black residents were registered to vote, compared with approximately 73.4 percent of the white residents.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a piece of legislation signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was passed at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The act was designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, and it was particularly important in the South.
This was bc the US gov failed to understand that no native american had the power to sell land in the first place
Marco Polo traveled to China in the 13th century, and saw several new things there.
