(Voting rights)

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    Voting rights timeline

  • 13 Amendment

    13 Amendment
    This is important based on how it End of civil war. Also it abolishes slavery to all AFRICAN AMERICANS
  • 15 Amendment

    15 Amendment
    this is important based on how it gives minority men the right to vote.Also how it changed the us petitioner
  • laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

    laws to take voting rights from African-Americans
    This is important based on it lead into many debates. Lastly how they did not give the right to vote to citizens like them
  • SC rules poll taxes are constitutional

    SC rules poll taxes are constitutional
    This event is important based on how tax poll got in the constitution. Lastly how it changed america
  • SC declares the Grandfather clause

    SC declares the Grandfather clause
    This event is important based on that allowed potential white voters to circumvent literacy tests ,poll taxes, and other tactics designed to disenfranchise southern blacks. Also how it is the wake of reconstruction
  • 19 amendment

    19 amendment
    it is important based on Grants the right to vote to women. It change america voting
  • 24 amendment

    24 amendment
    This is important based on how people wanted no more poll taxes.Also how the protest for no poll taxes and they got what they wanted
  • freedom summer

    freedom summer
    this is important based on civil rights movement organised an a voter registration.this was to drive attention to violent acts against blacks.
  • voting rights act

    voting rights act
    It is important based on how it aimed to overcome legal barriers. That prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.