COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Wednesday will mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark piece of legislation that was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The law prohibited discrimination based on race, color or language status and secured protections for blind, disabled or illiterate voters in registration and voting across the nation.

The bill, most recently reauthorized in 2006 under the Bush administration, made progress towards voter equality.

"The Voting Rights Act that broke the segregationist lock on the ballot box rose from the courage shown on a Selma bridge one Sunday afternoon in March of 1965. On that day, African Americans, including a member of the United States Congress, John Lewis, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a protest int

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