Voting Rights

By sydney_Barnt
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    Voting Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    This was the end of the civil War where times started to change for African Americans.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    This gave most men the right to vote.

  • Laws to take voting rights from African Americans

    Laws to take voting rights from African Americans
    Southern states didn't like that their slaves were starting to vote so this ended up leading to them passing laws for this not to hppen.

  • supreme courts declare"Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    supreme courts declare"Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional
    This put into to act that people could now vote even if their grandfather didn't.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Allows for when to be allowed to vote.

  • Supreme Courts rules that poll taxes are constitutional.

    Supreme Courts rules that poll taxes are constitutional.
    Courts decide that its okay according to the constitution for them to charge to vote.

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    They changed it so that people didn't have to pay poll taxes anymore.

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    Trying to get the right to vote in Mississippi for African Americans.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    There can no longer be anything be racially or ethnically discrimination in voting.

  • Supreme courts rule the literary test are constitutional.

    Supreme courts rule the literary test are constitutional.
    They said that they dint think it effects any individual group of people directly.