Undang-Undang Hak Suara 1965

Undang-Undang Hak Suara 1965 (bahasa Inggris: Voting Rights Act of 1965) adalah sebuah karya markah tanah dari legislasi federal di Amerika Serikat yang melarang diskriminasi rasial dalam pemungutan suara.[1][2] UU tersebut ditandatangani oleh Presiden Lyndon B. Johnson pada puncak Gerakan Hak Sipil pada 6 Agustus 1965, dan Kongres kemudian lima kali mengamendemenkan UU tersebut untuk memperluas perlindungannya.[1]

Referensi

1. "History of Federal Voting Rights Laws: The Voting Rights Act of 1965". United States Department of Justice. Diakses tanggal August 9, 2013. 
2. "Voting Rights Act". National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Diakses tanggal May 23, 2014. 

Bacaan tambahan

• Ansolabehere, Stephen; Persily, Nathaniel; Stewart, Charles III (2010). "Race, Region, and Vote Choice in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of the Voting Rights Act". Harvard Law Review. 123 (6): 1385–1436. 
• Bullock, Charles S. III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert, eds. (2016) The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act by (University of Oklahoma Press; 240 pages) focus on period between the 2006 revision of the 1965 act and the invalidation of one of its key provisions in Shelby County v. Holder (2013).
• Davidson, Chandler (1984). Minority Vote Dilution. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press. ISBN 978-0-88258-156-9. 
• Davidson, Chandler (1994). Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–1990. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02108-9. 
• Finley, Keith M. (2008). Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938–1965. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3345-3. 
• Garrow, David J. (1978). Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02498-2. 
• Lawson, Steven F. (1976). Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-7391-0087-5. 
• Smooth, Wendy (September 2006). "Intersectionality in electoral politics: a mess worth making". Politics & Gender. Cambridge Journals. 2 (3): 400–414. doi:10.1017/S1743923X06261087. 
• Berman, Ari (2015). Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-3741-5827-9. 

Pranala luar

• Text of original Act and 1970, 1975, and 1982 amendments Diarsipkan 2017-12-29 di Wayback Machine. (PDF)
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights - Voting Rights Act Publications Diarsipkan 2014-05-12 di Wayback Machine., Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland
• Voting Rights Enforcement and Reauthorization: An Examination of the Act's Section 5 Preclearance Provision (PDF), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• Voting Rights Act: Past, Present, and Future Diarsipkan 2008-10-09 di Wayback Machine., Justice Talking
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview (PDF), Congressional Research Service
• "The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan
• Voting Rights Act: Evidence of Continued Need: Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, March 8, 2006, Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4
• The Great Society Congress