Revolution at the Ballot Box ` The fight for the 1965 voting rights act—led by the NAACP, a broad coalition joined by LBJ, Dirksen, and Humphrey wins congressional approval of voting rights bill

The single biggest flaw of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, in the mindsof the civil rights leaders, was the failure to secure the right to vote for Negroes and other minorities with adequate enforcement features. As soon as the celebrations over the 1964 victory subsided, the NAACP’s leaders began preparing for the renewed struggle for a voting rights act. Without question, the violent encounters across the South during 1964, many sparked by the thousands of young volunteers from other regions of the nation, arrested the attention and imagination of a sizable-and growing-proportion of white Americans.