This is important, not just because it explains the act, but it tells you WHY we need it. The basic reason has not changed. The tactics may have changed, but a variety of voter restriction laws and voter suppression practices in many states show that we STILL need the Voting Rights Act, including federal pre-clearance of new proposed State practices affecting voting.
This video, (Why Did There Need to Be a Voting Rights Act of 1965 and What Did It Accomplish?).... Seems bias and almost one sided, only discussing White and Black voting rights. They always forget the original inhabitants of this country. "Even with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 that technically gave Native Americans the right to vote, historians said, tribal members were still shut out from voting for decades. For tens of thousands of Native Americans who served in the two world wars, it was especially disappointing because they were denied their rights in a country they’d fought for and that was built on land their ancestors had inhabited for centuries." "Native Americans were only able to win the right to vote by fighting for it state by state. In fact, efforts to disenfranchise Native Americans, particularly those who lived on reservations, continued through the early 1960s. It took until the Voting Rights Act 1965 for Native Americans to get the right to vote in every state, with Utah and Maine at the later half of the 60's being among the last to recognize their full voting rights."
