One of the crown jewels of civil rights of the civil rights movement is the voting rights act. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson while uh surrounded by civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, the late congressman John Lewis and many others.It happened in 1965. It transformed American politics. At the time, Johnson called it a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield.It was a step toward making good on the promise of the constitutional guarantees that were o ...