Whenever you call, have the deceased person's Social Security number handy. 1  Notify the bank or other financial institution of the beneficiary's death.  Request that the bank or other financial institution return any funds received for the month of death and later to Social Security as soon as possible.
Introduction. 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.n 1965, at the time of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, there were six African-American members of the U.S. House of Representativesandno blacks in the U.S. Senate.
We need Congress to act fast â to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act and protect the right to vote for all people. 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 grants citizenship, but not the right to vote, to all native-born Americans.Louisiana passes grandfather clauses to keep former slaves and their descendants from voting. As a result, registered black voters drops from 44.8%...ue, in part, to the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the number of black elected officials in Georgia grows to 495 in 1990 from just three prior to the VRA.