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After the civil war was over, the Supreme Court passed the 13th Amendment to where slavery was abolished.
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The Supreme court passed the 15th Amendment to where all males had the right to vote.
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Quite a few of the Southern states disagreed with African-Americans voting so in 1896 the states passed a law saying that African-Americans didn't have the right to vote.
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in 1898 the Supreme court ruled that taking the literacy test before you could vote was constitutional, this means that before you could vote, you had to take the literacy test.
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These laws required voters to prove their grandfather could vote, however most African-Americans' grandparents were slaves.
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The 19th Amendment grants the right to vote to women.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the pole taxes are constitutional.
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The 24th Amendment outlaws poll taxes.
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The freedom summer is an attempt to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi.
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The voting rights act banned racial and ethnic discrimination in elections.
