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en-wikipedia-org-3690		Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	21486	1965	62	From 1868 to 1888, electoral fraud and violence throughout the South suppressed the African-American vote.[19] From 1888 to 1908, Southern states legalized disenfranchisement by enacting Jim Crow laws; they amended their constitutions and passed legislation to impose various voting restrictions, including literacy tests, poll taxes, property-ownership requirements, moral character tests, requirements that voter registration applicants interpret particular documents, and grandfather clauses that allowed otherwise-ineligible persons to vote if their grandfathers voted (which excluded many African Americans whose grandfathers had been slaves or otherwise ineligible).[17][19] During this period, the Supreme Court generally upheld efforts to discriminate against racial minorities. Following the 1964 elections, civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) pushed for federal action to protect the voting rights of racial minorities.[22]:254–255 Their efforts culminated in protests in Alabama, particularly in the city of Selma, where County Sheriff Jim Clark's police force violently resisted African-American voter registration efforts.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3690.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3690.txt