civil rights

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    End of Civil War
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    15th amendment

    15th amendment gives males right to vote, which progresses voting rights and equality.
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    Laws to remove voting rights

    This was an important oppression of southern states and a failed attempt to remove voting rights.
  • literacy tests are constitutional

    literacy tests are constitutional
    Leads to removal of ethnic discrimination in 1965
  • Grandfather Clause unconstitutional

    Grandfather Clause unconstitutional
    Prevented perpetual lack of voting rights
  • 19th amenment

    19th amenment
    Gave women voting rights!
  • Poll taxes are constitutional

    Poll taxes are constitutional
    Halted progress on racial voting rights.
  • 24th amendment

    Outlaws poll taxes, reversing previous court descision.
  • Freedom summer

    Freedom summer
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act