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…showed last 75 words of 1124 total…lic facilities; prohibited private employers and unions from practicing discrimination; and banned registrars from applying different standards to white and black voting applicants, a provision that was strengthened by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its later amendments. The 1964 law also authorized the U.S. attorney general to file an action when a 'pattern or practice' of widespread discrimination was found. Federal financial aid could then be withdrawn from programs in which racial discrimination persisted.