Voting Rights

By JaydenL
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    Voting right span

  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    This event leads to laws being passed for African Americans to have voting right. It leads to this by making a step in there voting rights.
  • Literacy tests

    Literacy tests
    This is important because it made it so they could pick if someone could vote or not. Also it was unfair because they could like or dislike your answer because your skin color and you couldn't do anything about it.
  • Supreme Court Declared's "Grandfather Clause" Unconstitutional

    Supreme Court Declared's "Grandfather Clause" Unconstitutional
    This event is important because what your grandparents were shouldn't influence what you can and can't do. Also you are your own person and they are there's.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    This is important because it helped equity with everyone no matter gender or skin color. And without this amendment things wouldn't be how they are now.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Outlawing poll taxes is important because not everyone would be able to pay that much because they didn't get paid that much. So people got in trouble for not paying it and they could,t do anything about it.
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    This is important because it was some of the ending steps of everyone getting equality and voting rights. This event lead to the "Voting Rights Act"
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    This event helped lead to being the last law that made everyone voting rights equal. The last law that helped lead to this was Freedom Summer in 1964 that helped end everything.