Discuss Voting Rights Act of 1965After the Fifteenth Amendment was passed to give African Americans the rights to vote, there was still voting racial discrimination known in the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965 took away literacy tests with voting in a couple southern states. President Johnson wanted to act on the problem and make civil rights one of his top priorities. The number of black legislators and members of Congress rose due to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had an enormous impact.