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15th Amendment
The 15th amendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869 and was ratified on February 3, 1870. This amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Alice Paul and the Hunger Strike
Women were harassed and beaten, and were repeatedly arrested and jailed on charges of “obstructing traffic.”In October 1917, Alice Paul and others went on a hunger strike in protest. In response, the prison guards restrained and force-fed her through a tube. In November 1917, the superintendent ordered over forty guards to attack the Silent Sentinels. Battered, choked, and beaten, some to unconsciousness.
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19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and was ratified on August 18, 1920. This amendment gave women the right to vote. -
McCarran-Walter Act
The law repealed the last of the existing measures to exclude Asian immigration, allotted each Asian nation a minimum quota of 100 visas each year, and eliminated laws preventing Asians from becoming naturalized American citizens.
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Reynolds v. Sims
Equal protection requires that state legislative districts should be composed of roughly equal populations if possible.
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls.
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24th Amendment
The 24th amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964. This amendment says that anyone can vote and that there is no longer a voting tax. You no longer have to pay to vote. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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26th Amendment
The 26th amendment was passed by Congress on March 23, 1971 and was ratified on July 1, 1971. This amendment lowered the legal voting age to 18. -
Help America Vote Act
HAVA was passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002 to make sweeping reforms to the nation's voting process. another name for the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, designed to reverse declining voter registration by allowing voters to register at motor vehicle departments.
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