The legal methods used to deny African Americans the right to vote, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, were overcome by ______.
A. passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution
B. an executive order issued by President Lyndon Johnson
C. changes in the political leadership of the southern states
D. passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
A. passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution
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