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Cufflinks Depot is proud to offer this most unique historic cufflink, the Voting Rights Act Cuff Link. The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prevented states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which southern states had prevented African-Americans from exercising the franchise. This Voting Rights Act Cufflinks commerates this moment in time. With the recent election of Barack Obama, look how far we have come. No better way to remember this moment than with these historic collectors cufflinks. A treasure for anyone to own.
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