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Naturalization Law
Only free whites can become naturalized citizens -
women's rights convention held in seneca falls new york
Frederick Douglass, a
newspaper editor and former slave, gives a speech supporting
universal voting rights. His speech helps convince the convention to adopt a resolution calling for voting rights for women. -
Vote expanded to all white men
It is not required to own property to vote. North carolina was the last to pass this. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Ended slavery but only a few states let blacks vote. Most states did not. -
13th amendment
The 13th amendment said to have all slaves freed -
American Equal Rights Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who were womens rights activists, formed an organization for white and black women and men so everyone could have universal rights. The organization later divides and regroups over disagreements in strategies to gain the vote for women and African Americans -
14th amendment
all men, white and black, are to be considered citizens. -
15th amendment
cannot deny voting by race but they had hard literacy tests, poll taxes and other things to try to get the blacks to stop voting -
Sojourner Truth
she was a black woman who tried to vote but she was turned away. -
19th amendment
On June 4th, 1919, congressed passed this but it wasn't ratified untill August 18th 1920. All women black and white are allowed to vote -
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Voting rights as civil rights
Large-scale efforts in the South to register African Americans to vote are intensified.
However, state officials refuse to allow African Americans to register by using voting
taxes, literacy tests and violent intimidation -
24th amendment
Do not have to pay a tax to vote -
Walk Against Fear
Civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded by a sniper during a solo “Walk
Against Fear” voter registration march between Tennessee and Mississippi -
4,000 African Americans register to vote
The next
day, nearly 4,000 African Americans register to vote. And other civil rights leaders such
as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael continue the march while Meredith
heals. Meredith rejoins March at its conclusion in Mississippi
