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Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service

I'm for Hana Hither and today we're delving into the archives and going back to 1965 to the height of the

civil rights struggle in the USA when the Voting Rights Act was passed into law.

The landmark legislation was brought in to

tackle racial discrimination during elections and to guarantee the rights of

African Americans to vote. Just to warn you, this program uses some language in a historical context that some listeners may find offensive today.

Although African Americans were guaranteed the right to vote by the Constitution,

many in the South were denied that right. They faced tremendous obstacles

including poll taxes, so-called literacy tests and other bureaucratic restrictions.

Black voters also risked harassment, intimidation, economic reprisals and physical violence where they tried to register or vote.

And so many weren't registered voters and as a result had very little, if any, political power,

either locally or nationally.

The next thing that they said that we have is to register and to vote.

Every Negro in Albany and the citizens who is eligible to vote and can register ought to go down and register.

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