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In Hudson's ambitious study he identifies two major temporal consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA).
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In Hudson's ambitious study he identifies two major temporal consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA):. First, the VRA was part of President Johnson's Great Society initiative. This was to increase the democratic participation of blacks by ensuring them equal access to voting booths in Southern states. Second, the racist intimidation in the form a literacy tests, constitutional interpretation tests and other obstacles imposed by whites. These factors prevented blacks from registering to vote in many Southern states. Reinforcement of the 15th amendment was, in Hudson's view, accomplished within the first five years of the VRA. As black registration in the South increased from 29% in 1965 to 56% in 1970. What followed on the heels of this victory, however, was nothing short of the accelerated unraveling of Martin Luther King's dream of racial assimilation. Today we live the nightmare of a society hemmed "along racial lines. Who...
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