Bipartisan Effort Brings Amendment to Voting Rights ActThe following editorial appeared in the Fort Worth Star-TelegramWhen President George W. Bush...
The 15th Amendment, which sought to protect the voting rights of Black men after the Civil War, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Despite the amendment, within a few years numerous discriminatory practices were used to prevent Black citizens from exercising their right to vote, ...
The journey to women's voting rights and the Nineteenth AmendmentLearn more about the women's suffrage movement in this interview with Dr. Colleen Shogan, vice chair of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission and senior vice president at the White House Historical Association, on the occasion...
Voting Rights Milestones in America: A Timeline Through the decades, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change and expansion. Read more See MoreRead more about U.S. ConstitutionSign up for Video of the Day Get a FREE featured video sent right to your inbox, every week...
(Fourteenth Amendment) and the voting rights of male ex-slaves (Fifteenth Amendment). Despite those constitutional guarantees of rights, almost a century of civil rights agitation and litigation would be required to bring about consistent federal enforcement of those rights in the former Confederate ...
Before the turn of the century, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado amended their Constitutions to grant women voting rights. This led the new National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to adopt tactics meant to persuade individual states to introduce women’s suffrage. Sixteen more states did s...
Did You Learn About the Role of Black Troops in Liberating the South? Posted in13th AmendmentAbolitionistsVideos Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentz Posted in13th AmendmentAbolitionistsCivil WarFrederick DouglassLincoln...
So I think when we talk about voting rights, it’s very difficult for me to get on the same bandwagon of “Vote! Register to vote so everything will change!” because it has never been like that for us. We’ve been at this for forever. We were Spain’s colony, and then we were...
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. The13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, had preceded it in 1865, and the15th Amendmentextended voting rights to black males after it was ratified in 1870. Many states in the former Confederacy, however, responded to these gains by limiting them. This included curbing black voting....