The Civil Rights Act of 1960 provided for the appointment of referees to help African Americans register to vote. The 24th Amendment, adopted in 1964, barred poll taxes in federal elections. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests in many southern states.
Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk in 1934 whose powers were those of hypnotism and illusion. [Superman was the first superhero prototype within the comics industry. â¦ ] First superhero to be created was Superman. Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster in 1932.. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_Superman_created#ixzz1zyEbjUmt.
Black Lightning is DC Comics' first African American superhero and the first black DC Comics hero to lead his own series. Born Jefferson Pierce, Black Lightning is originally depicted as a schoolteacher from the crime-ridden Suicide Slum area of Metropolis who acquires electrical superpowers from a technologically advanced power belt that he puts to use to cleaning up crime in his neighbourhood.