Discrimination was on the major setbacks to the onset and establishment of justice and freedom in the United States. Being a conglomerate state, the nation was under the occupancy of people from many racial backgrounds among who included the whites, Latinos, Asian Americans and the native white Americans among others. With the make and the increase of the fight and the prospect for freedom, there was created many human rights groups that sought to fight for the liberation of the citizens from the menace of the inequality that existed at that time. The voting rights acts of 1965 and the immigration and nationality act amendments of 1965 was well equipped to remedy the existing problem of discrimination. The enactment of the voting rights acts of 1965 was one of the culminations of the years of political, civil and legal battles that ensured the curtailment of majority of the human rights and privileges that were otherwise granted unequally to the Native Americans. The legislation was a culmination or battles that had seen the demise of many American civil …show more content…
The immigration and nationality act amendments of 1965 targeted the liberation of the US citizens from the draconic quota law of the states that had underpinned the non-American immigrants having origins from the Latin America, Africa and of the foreign origins. The law sought to outpace the old quota law that had served the nation during the post-revolutionary war era. The quota system of administration sought to have the immigrants granted the access to free citizenship under the rule that seventy percent of the immigrants ought to have been designated and favored nations such as the UK, Ireland and the German republic. These slots were often unused and thus led to the blockage of the African, Mexican and he Asian immigrants (Center for Immigration Studies,