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The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all men white or black, but not the right to vote.
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The amendment gave the right to vote to any man regardless of race or color.
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Trying to find away around the 15th amendment, many southern states implemented a poll tax.
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In need of a new way to keep African Americans from voting Southerners started using literacy tests.
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The grandfather clause prevented anyone, or anyone whose grandparents could not vote before 1867 from voting now.
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The 19th Amendment officially barred any laws against banning the right to vote based on gender
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The 24th Amendment effectively banned the poll tax nationwide.
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In 1965 a series of peaceful marches from Selma to Montgomery took place.
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Bloody Sunday occurred in 1965 during the marches when a group of marchers were met by state troopers, and refused to stop. The police then shot tear gas at the group and beat them with clubs wounding roughly 50 people.
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The law signed into effect in 1965 prevented racial discrimination in voting. Link text
