Voting Rights

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    voting rights

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    This event is important cause it lead to the defeat of slavery
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    This lead to the right of males of color to vote.
  • Southern States pass law to take voting rights from African-Americans

    Southern States pass law to take voting rights from African-Americans
  • Supreme Court rules that literacy tests are constitutional

    Supreme Court rules that literacy tests are constitutional
    This could have changed everything today
  • Grandfather Clause declared unconstitutional

    Grandfather Clause declared unconstitutional
    This could have changed voting today
  • Women given right to vote

    Women given right to vote
    That changed voting today
  • Supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

    Supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional
  • 24th amendment outlaws poll taxes

    24th amendment outlaws poll taxes
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
  • Voting rights act

    Voting rights act