Some of the states used a Poll taxes and literacy tests to turn away the African Americans from the vote polls prior to the 1960s.
The voting discrimination was corrected by the enactment of the Voting Act of 1965.
This Act prohibited the discriminatory voting practices that was adopted in many southern states after the Civil War.
In conclusion, the Voting Act 1965 corrected the discrimination faced by the African Americans.
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