The voting act
Also influenced by the Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Act was passed on August 6, 1965. The Voting Act was constructed to overcome barriers at the state and local levels that rendered African Americans from performing their right to vote under the fifteenth Amendment. The Voting Act banned the use of literacy tests, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections. Soon after poll taxes were banned due to it infringing on the twenty fourth amendment.