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The civil war ends with slavery being illegal throughout the US
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Minority men are allowed to vote
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The south makes laws making voting harder for minorities
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The Supreme Court rules that literacy test are constitutional
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The Supreme Court rules the Grandfather Clause unconstitutional letting minority men to vote regardless of their heritage
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It is no longer illegal for woman to vote
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The Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional and people in some states must pay in order to vote
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Poll taxes are now unconstitutional and states can no longer charge people for voting
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To encourage voting registration in Mississippi, Freedom Summer was enacted with members from the community and Ku Klux Klan began to attack activist
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A Bill is passed making it illegal to discriminate people from voting
