Voting registration drive locations across Houston

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Today is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and to celebrate, there is a big voter registration driver take place at locations all across Houston.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act in 1965. It effectively stopped the requirement of literacy tests in order to vote.

"It is wrong, deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," President Johnson said during a speech before a joint session of congress in March 15, 1965, urging them to pass the Voting Rights Act.

The act was signed into law five months later.

Here's a list of the voter registration drives taking place today.

• Northeast Multi-Purpose Center
  9720 Spaulding Houston, Texas 77016
  11:30am-3:30pm


• Acres Homes Multi-Purpose Center
  6719 W. Montgomery, Houston, Texas 77091
  12:00pm-5:00pm


• Fifth Ward Multi-Purpose Center
  4014 Market St, Houston, Texas 77020
  10:30am-2:00pm


• Houston's This Is It Soul Food
  2712 Bloggett, Houston, Texas 77004
  12:00pm-6:00pm


• West-End Multi-Purpose Center
  170 Heights Blvd Houston, TX 77007
  10:00am-3:00pm


• Latino Learning Center
  3522 Polk St, Houston, TX 77003
  2:30pm-5:30pm


• Vietnamese Community Center
  9530 Antoine Drive Houston, TX
  10:00am-12:00pm


• Lone Star College-Greenspoint Center
  250 North Sam Houston Pkwy E, Houston, TX 77060
  1:00pm-5:00pm


• Pleasantville Neighborhood
  1514 Pleasantville Dr. Houston TX
  12:00pm-4:00pm


• Mickey Leland Federal Building
  1919 Smith St. Houston Tx 77002
  9:00am-3:00pm


• The Breakfast Klub
  3711 Travis St, Houston, TX
  9:00am-1:00pm


• NAACP - Houston Branch
  2002 Wheeler, Houston, TX 77004
  11:00am-4:00pm


• Houston Area Urban League
  1301 Texas Avenue Houston, TX 77002
  11:00am-1:00pm


• Houston Children's Museum
  1500 Binz Street, Houston, TX 77004
  5:00pm-8:00pm