Based on the passage, the Voting Rights Act
Read this passage from the Voting Rights Act.
No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting.. shall be
imposed or applied by any State ... to deny or abridge the
right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account
of race or color.
- Voting Rights ActI
1965
made it illegal to create voting laws that discriminated.
gave states the power to impose their own voting rules
established a set of qualifications required for voters
made it legal to impose a poll tax on all potential voters.