Voting Rights

Voting Rights

Period: 1850 to 2000

Voting RIghts

13th Amendment

1865

the end of the civil war and abolish slavery.

15th Amendment

1869

Gives minority males the right to vote

Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

1896

prevents African Americans from voting

Supreme court rules that literacy test are constitutional

1898

Force to take a literacy test in order to vote

Supreme court declares Grandfather clause unconstitutional

1915

the could only vote if their grandfather could too.

19th Amendment

1920

Gives women the right to vote

Supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

1937

Had to pay all taxes in order to vote

24th amendment

1964

Supreme court declares poll taxes unconstitutional

Freedom Summer

1964

An attempt to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi

Voting Rights Act

1965

Bans racial and ethic discrimination in elections