Alpha 5 (voiced by Bill Hader) is not the only holdover in this slick repackaging of âMighty Morphin Power Rangers,â the shrill and unfathomably popular 1990s Fox Kidsâ series (adapted by Haim Saban from a Japanese TV show) about teenage superheroes in color-coded costumes.
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.
Denying black men the right to vote through legal maneuvering and violence was a first step in taking away their civil rights. Beginning in the 1890s, southern states enacted literacy tests, poll taxes, elaborate registration systems, and eventually whites-only Democratic Party primaries to exclude black voters.