Voting Rights Act

基本解釋

Within days of Bloody Sunday, president Johnson would present a bill to Congress that would gain passage later that year as the Voting Rights Act.
在血色星期天不久后，約翰遜總統(tǒng)向國(guó)會(huì)提交了一份議案，不久這項(xiàng)議案通過，這便是投票權(quán)法案。
IT IS one of America's greatest laws, and one of the least understood.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forced Southern states to let black Americans vote.
它是美國(guó)最偉大的法律之一，也是人們知之甚少的的法律之一——1965年通過的選舉權(quán)法——強(qiáng)制美國(guó)南方諸州允許黑人進(jìn)行投票。
Moreover, the Voting Rights Act, originally intended to prevent the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, makes it difficult to marginalise minority voters.
此外，最初為保護(hù)南方黑人選舉權(quán)設(shè)立的《選舉權(quán)法》，防止了對(duì)少數(shù)民族選民的邊緣化。

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
隨著選民登記的進(jìn)行，和在1964年通過的投票權(quán)法案,這樣的事愈演愈烈。
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And we need to keep this Voting Rights Act that has worked so well in place...
NPR: Voting Rights Act Renewal Stalled in Congress
Efforts to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act hit a surprising snag in Congress last week.
NPR: Voting Rights Act Renewal Stalled in Congress
The same could be said for the Voting Rights Act that followed in 1965.
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