Voting Rights

By Brandon_McGee
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    Voting Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Slavery is abolished
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Minorities get voting rights.

  • laws to limit voting rights of african americans

    Jim Crow laws and other methods such as the grandfather clause.

  • Supreme Court rules that literacy tests are constitutional.

  • Grandfather Clause ruled unconstitutional.

    Grandfather Clause ruled unconstitutional.

    It no longer matters if your grandfather could vote.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Votes for women.
  • Poll taxes ruled unconstitutional

    Poll taxes ruled unconstitutional

  • Poll taxes made illegal by 24th amendment

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    An attempt to help people register to vote, leading to murders.
  • Voting rights Act

    Voting rights Act

    Racial discrimination is now illegal.