Voting Rights

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    Voting Rights

  • !3th Amendment

    !3th Amendment

    End of the civil war and the amendment abolishes slavery.
  • 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

    Many southern states passed this law.
  • Supreme court rules that literacy test are constitutional

    Supreme court rules that literacy test are constitutional

    Supreme court rules that literacy test are constitutional
  • Supreme court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    Supreme court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    These lawas required voters to prove their grandfather could vote however most African American's grandparents were slaves.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Grants women the right to vote
  • Superme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

    Superme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Outlaws poll taxes
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    An attempt to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    Bans racial and ethnic discrimination in elections