The Voting Rights Act ended

poll taxes.

literacy tests.

voter segregation.

gender discrimination.

The impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. It also ended literacy tests.

This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It unlawful the discriminatory pick practices adopted in several southern states once the war, together with accomplishment tests as a necessity to vote.