Alpha 5 (voiced by Bill Hader) is not the only holdover in this slick repackaging of âMighty Morphin Power Rangers,â the shrill and unfathomably popular 1990s Fox Kidsâ series (adapted by Haim Saban from a Japanese TV show) about teenage superheroes in color-coded costumes.
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.
Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act secured voting rights for raci