The Fight for Voting Rights
The Fight for Voting Rights: How the Past Informs the Current ...
For decades, Black voters fought for equal access to the ballot. Today, that access is still under attack.
Voting Rights: A Short History - Carnegie Corporation of New York
America began its great democratic experiment in the late 1700s by granting the right to vote to a narrow subset of society — white male landowners ...
Fighting for the democracy we all deserve by securing the right to vote and dismantling barriers to the ballot box.
Voting Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest. The ACLU works to protect and expand Americansʼ ...
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for Voting Rights
Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of ...
Voting Rights | Articles and Essays | Civil Rights History Project
When Reconstruction ended in 1877, states across the South implemented new laws to restrict the voting rights of African Americans.
Fight for Our Vote - When We All Vote
As civic engagement, voting rights, and voter mobilization organizations representing millions of Americans, we are joining together to ensure that Congress ...
The fight for the right to vote in the United States - Nicki Beaman Griffin
So, how have voting rights changed since the first election in 1789? Nicki Beaman Griffin outlines the history of the long fight for a more ...
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | NAACP
One of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B.
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 ...
Fighting Voter Suppression | League of Women Voters
We protect every American's right to vote, challenging those who seek to restrict Black, brown, female, disabled, and other Americans from making their ...
Voting Rights Throughout United States History
Voting rights in the United States have not always been equally accessible. African Americans and women of all ethnicities have fought, and continue to fight.
In early US history, only white adult male property voters were allowed to vote. The 15th Amendment and later the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution set ...
Voices from the violent civil rights era see attacks on voting rights as ...
People at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights six decades ago are reflecting on the times and their struggles.
Voting Rights - U.S. Congresswoman Terri Sewell
Generation of Americans — many here in Alabama's 7th Congressional Dsitrict — marched, fought, and even died for the equal right of all Americans to vote.
Women of Color and the Fight for Women's Suffrage | CCSWG
Women of color were often kept from the polls through a variety of tactics. They faced racial and ethnic discrimination and were often discouraged from voting ...
Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights
Black women played an active role in the struggle for universal suffrage. They participated in political meetings and organized political societies.
New Edition of Michael Waldman's The Fight to Vote Puts Today's ...
... voting laws … and the fight for federal voting rights legislation. THE FIGHT TO VOTE was the first book to trace the history of voting rights ...
Series: Suffrage in America: The 15th and 19th Amendments
Throughout history, different groups were prevented from taking part in the voting process. At one point, women, people of color, and immigrants could not vote.
Voting Rights Milestones in America: A Timeline | HISTORY
The right to vote in US elections has seen massive change. The original Constitution left voting rights to the states for a range of reasons.