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Only 3% of African Americans in the south were allowed to vote. This was because of the Jim Crow laws that were placed there to keep African Americans from voting.
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The act authorized the US attorney general to make claims in the interest of African Americans being denied the right to vote. This was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the US congress since 1875.
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The act established penalties for anyone who prevented someone's attempt to register to vote. It was made to deal with discriminatory laws found in the segregated south.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that the legislative districts across states be equal in population. https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_reynolds.html. Basically, the US Supreme Court reinforced the "one person, one vote" as a national standard.
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The act outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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The act prohibits any election that denies the right to vote to citizens of any race. It forces jurisdictions with histories of voter discrimination to submit any changes in its election laws to the government.
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By the end of 1965, 250,000 new African American voters were registered.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama consisting of nonviolent protesters against the racist laws denying African Americans the right to vote.
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