AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?: "As a result, few blacks in the south voted between 1870 and 1965. This was changed primarily as the result of Federal legislation in 1963 and 1964 insuring the right of blacks to vote, and efforts by the Johnson administration to enforce voting rights in the south. As a result, southern blacks vote overwhelmingly Democrat to this day."