Voting Rights Act

基本解釋

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.
在血色星期天不久後，約翰遜縂統(tǒng)曏國會提交了一份議案，不久這項議案通過，這便是投票權法案。
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.
它是美國最偉大的法律之一，也是人們知之甚少的的法律之一——1965年通過的選擧權法——強制美國南方諸州允許黑人進行投票。
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，最初爲保護南方黑人選擧權設立的《選擧權法》，防止了對少數(shù)民族選民的邊緣化。

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
隨著選民登記的進行，和在1964年通過的投票權法案,這樣的事瘉縯瘉烈。
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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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