Voting Rights Timeline

By Madison Palmer

  • 13th Amendment

    End of civil war and 13th amendment abolishes slavery

  • Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

    Mandy southern states pass laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment gives minority males right to vote.

  • Supreme court rules literacy tests are constitutional

  • Supreme court declares "Grand Father Clause" unconstitutional

    These laws required voters to prove their grandfather could vote, however most African-Americans' grandparents were slaves.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment grants the right to vote to women

  • Supreme court rules the poll taxes are constitutional.

  • 24th Amendment

    25th Amendment outlaws poll taxes.

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom summer is an attempt to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi

  • Voting rights Act

    Bans racial and ethnic discrimination in elections