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.
Michael Zak, author of â Back to Basics for the Republican Party ,â which chronicles the partyâs civil rights heritage, believes Goldwater was a significant factor, by forgetting that the 1964 bill virtually mirrored Republican-backed legislation from 1875.mail this story to a friend. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat with a mixed record on race, signed the Civil Rights Act into law â something his Republican challenger in that yearâs election, Sen. Barry Goldwater, had voted against, despite having a solid civil rights record up to that point.