Voting Rights

By Josh ly
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The Civil war has ended and slavery was put to and end.
    This event is important because this is when slavery was kinda put to and end.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    all males were able to vote.
  • Laws to take voting rights from African Americans

    Laws to take voting rights from African Americans
    President Lyndon Johnson was going to give all the blacks permission to vote.
  • Supreme court rules that literacy test are constitutional

    you would have to take a literacy text to vote
  • Supreme court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    Needed a Grandfather to vote but the blacks could not do it because some of them were slaved
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Women were able to vote
  • Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

    had to pay to vote
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Get ride of the poll taxes
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    African Americans vote in mississippi
  • Voting right act

    Voting right act
    Racial and ethnic discrimination were banned.