Describe the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Vo

Describe the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Be specific about the importance of this legislation to African Americans.

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Civil Rights Act: prohibited discrimination in employment, voting, and access to public facilities, and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Voting Rights Act: prohibited literacy tests for voting and sent federal examiners to register African-American voters. These two pieces of civil rights legislation desegregated hotels, restaurants, and other public accommodations, established the basis of thousands of legal challenges to racial discrimination, and registered hundreds of thousands of African-American voters in the South.