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Voting Rights Movement
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13th amendment
This event leads to the next event "15th amendment" because once the African Americans were free they thought would now have the the rights that were taken away when they were slaves. Instead they had to wait and fight for the right of voting. This also leads to other civil rights events since the African Americans did not automatically get there votes back. -
15th Amendment
This event lead to increased voting rights because they finally just got to vote. Getting to vote is one of the first steps to having more voting rights. -
laws to take voting rights from African Americans
This event lead to other events such as the grandfather clause and poll taxes. This is so because those were some of the ways that they tried to limit/take voting rights from African Americans. -
Supreme Court rules that literacy tests are constitutional
This event is important because it lead to the event that declared it unconstitutional. -
Supreme Court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutiional
This event increased voting rights because if it was still constitutional then most/all African Americans would not be able to vote. This is because their grandfathers were all slaves which made them unable to vote. -
19th Amendment
This event lead to increased voting rights because it allowed a whole other group of people to vote, women. With women voting there was so much more people voting. -
Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional
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24th Amendment
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Freedom Summer
This lead to increased voting rights because it helped getting African Americans registered. They needed to be registered to vote so this one big step towards that. Most African Americans would have hard times getting registered but this made it a little bit easier. -
Voting Rights Act
