Timeline: Voting Rights

By Rustypasta

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    End of the Civil War and the 13th Amendment abolishes slavery.
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    Voting Rights

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    Gives minority males the right to vote.

  • Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

    Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans
    Southern States pass lawes to make voting more difficult for African Americans.

  • Supreme Court rules that literacy test are constitutional

    Supreme Court rules that literacy test are constitutional
    The test that are given before people vote are declared as constitutional.

  • Supremem Court rules "The Grandfather Clause" Unconstitutional

    Supremem Court rules "The Grandfather Clause" Unconstitutional

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Grants women the right to vote.

  • Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

    Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Outlaws poll taxing.

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    Attemt to allow african americans to vote in the state of Mississippi

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Bans racial and ethnic discrimination in elections.