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title: "How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 stop discrimination in areas where voter eligibility tests were previously used?"  
description: "How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 stop discrimination in areas where voter eligibility tests were previously used?"  
author: "Torres mary"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41505/how-did-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965-stop-discrimination-in-areas-where-voter-eligibility-tests-were-previously-used  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 stop discrimination in areas where voter eligibility tests were previously used?

How did the [Voting Rights](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40570/why-were-whites-in-mississippi-afraid-of-african-american-voting-rights) Act of 1965 stop [discrimination](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39171/what-is-the-zero-discrimination-day-campaign-for-year-2018) in areas where voter eligibility [tests](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72262/in-which-did-the-un-general-assembly-unga-declare-29th-august-as-the-international-day-against-nuclear-tests) were previously used?


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