The fight for the right to vote in the United States
History of Voting in America - Voting and Civic Engagement
1789: The U.S. constitution did not establish any specific voting rights, instead states were given the power to regulate voting laws. As a ...
When Women Lost the Vote Timeline
This timeline explores women's political activism, their changing rights, and the history of the woman suffrage and women's rights movements in New Jersey and ...
Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 15 – “The Right to Vote”
Amendment Fifteen to the Constitution – the last of the Reconstruction Amendments – was ratified on February 3, 1870. It grants the right to vote for all ...
Leaving all to younger hands: Why the history of the women's ...
Suffragists-turned-women-citizens. Once the 19th Amendment passed, suffragists claimed a new moniker—that of women citizens. In many ways the suffrage movement ...
Watch The Vote | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women ...
The Fight to Vote | Book by Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Praised by the late John Lewis, this is the seminal book about the long and ongoing struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.
John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 included a requirement designed to ensure minority voters across the country are able to participate equally in the electoral ...
Women's Right to Vote, a Timeline of obtaining Equality
Abigail Adams writes to John Adams, founding father, upon talks of the constitution begging him to consider: “remember the ladies and be more.
Right to Vote: Suffrage for Women, African Americans and American ...
A man, African American or white, could vote in Iowa if he was 21 years old and a resident. At the same time, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...
The Senate Passes the Voting Rights Act
The long-delayed issue of voting rights had come to the forefront because of a voter registration drive launched by civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama.
The Fight Against Voter Suppression (A Brief History) - PBS
This FRONTLINE Short Doc goes inside the fight over the right to vote, explores how the roots of voter suppression trace back to post-Civil War America, and ...
Fighting for Our Rights - USCIS
However, in U.S. history, not everyone has had the same freedoms. One group that was discriminated against was African Americans. After the Civil War, they did ...
Voting rights | Definition, History, & Legislation - Britannica
Voting rights, in U.S. history and politics, are a set of legal and constitutional protections designed to ensure the opportunity to vote in ...
The 26th Amendment - Rock the Vote
The Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to lower the voting age in state and local elections, and thus that provision was struck down. Because ...
How Blue States Are Fighting for Voting Rights When Washington ...
“Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right,” proclaimed ...
100 Years After the 19th Amendment, the Fight for Women's ...
Despite the passage of the amendment, many women of color were still barred from the polls through rampant intimidation and voter suppression ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the. U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v.
Make the Right to Vote a Fundamental Right - NAACP
The NAACP supports federal legislation, litigation, or a constitutional amendment making the right to vote a fundamental right.
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Icons of Voting Rights - United States Department of State
Civil rights icons such as Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer were instrumental in laying the foundation for securing and maintaining ...