Issues voting rights

Voting Rights Day 4

By marciegrothause
  • Voting Rights expand

    Voting Rights expand

    By the end of 1965, over 250,000 African Americans registered to vote.
  • Extension of Voting Rights Act

    Extension of Voting Rights Act

    Congress reviews temporary provision for 5 years. President Richard Nixon signs extension to Voting Rights Act of 1965.
    *Start date is year only
  • African Americans in Congress

    African Americans in Congress

    Barbara Jordan (Houston) and Andrew Young (Atlanta) became first African Americans elected to Congress.
    *Start date is year only.
  • Ford extension of Voting Rights Act

    Ford extension of Voting Rights Act

    President Gerald Ford signs extension to Voting Rights Act for new measures of bar literacy tests nationwide and give assistance to language minority voters.
    *Start date is year only
  • Reagan extension of Voting Rights Act

    Reagan extension of Voting Rights Act

    President Ronald Reagan signs 25 year extension to Voting Rights Act of 1965 due to over turn of Supreme Court case of City of Mobile v. Bolden.
    *Start date is year only.
  • Growth of African American officials

    Growth of African American officials

    Black elected officials grow from 3 to 495 in Georgia.
  • Congree extends Section V

    Congree extends Section V

    Congress extends “Section 5” of Voting Rights Act for an additional 25 years.
    *Start date is year only