Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Civil rights bills that he signed into law banned racial discrimination in public facilities , interstate commerce , the workplace , and housing ; the Voting Rights Act prohibited certain requirements in southern states used to disenfranchise African Americans .	Voting Rights Act	Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6 , 1965 , and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections .	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon B. Johnson	President	President of the United States	Civil Rights Movement	Civil Rights Movement	Congress	United States Congress
