The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was created in response to a tremendous irregularity happening in the United States during the time. In many states of the country there were measurements being taken that undermined the right to vote of African-Americans in spite of the existence of the 15th amendment. This act came to invalidate any sort of devices that were being used to prevent them from voting, such were as absurd as a literacy test or officers asking African-American men to recite the entire Constitution to prove they were capable of voting. When the rest of the country and the federal government became aware of this situation due to some terrible incidents that were exposed, President Johnson signed the bill in the presence of Martin Luther King and other important civil rights leaders on August 6th, 1965.
