The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 1966 alongside the Western film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone.
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.
Under strong pressure from Johnson and the civil rights movement, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act by a 77-19 vote on May 26, 1965. The House passed it 333-85 on July 9. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on Aug. 6 with King and other civil rights leaders in attendance. The law prohibited the use of literacy tests, provided federal oversight of voter registration in areas where large numbers of nonwhites had not registered to vote and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of discriminatory poll taxes in state and local elections.