voting rights

By remx26

  • 13th amendment

    end of the civil war and abolishes slevery

  • 15th amendment

    gives us minority males the right to vote

  • voting right

    many southern states pass laws to take voting rights from african americans

  • supreme court

    rules that literacy test are constitutional

  • grand father clause

    these laws required voters to prove their grandfather could vote

  • 19th amendment

    grants the right to vote to women

  • poll taxes

    supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

  • 24th amendment

    outlaws poll taxes

  • freedom summer

    an attempt to register african americans to vote in mississippi

  • voting rights act

    bans recial and ethnic discrimination in election