Voting Rights Timeline (4.1.16)

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    At first abolishing slavery was both a difficult descion as well as a cumbersome load, but as time passes, people begin to acknowledge African American as people who are just as valued as we are.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    Giving the minority males the right to vote provided a greater opportunity to have the same freedom as those who can legal vote. This law stopped the discrimination of age appropriate voters.
  • Laws to Take Voting Rights from African Americans

    Laws to Take Voting Rights from African Americans
    African Americans were treated unequally, which goes against the constitution. By taking away their rights to vote was the same thing as taking away their freedom.
  • Supreme Court Rules that Literacy Test are Contitutional

    Supreme Court Rules that Literacy Test are Contitutional
    African Americas weren't literate enought to vote.They had to take a test and if the Americans wanted them to vote they couls, but if they decided not to, then you didnt get to vote.
  • Supreme Court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    Supreme Court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional
    Grandfather clause is importnt because if the grandparents of an African American couldn't vote then their equal chances of voting wouldn't be fair. basically the Afican Americans rights were taken away from them, it's as if this laws was just and excuse for not giving the colored people a chance.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Including womens voting rights led to the expansion of inputted public opinion. More delegates means more competition. Without the womens rights to vote.
  • Supremeem Court Rules that Poll Taxes are Constitutional

    Supremeem Court Rules that Poll Taxes are Constitutional
    This event is important because we would be in a major debt. The poll taxes mainly effected the people who were either to poor or because they were black that they could afford the amount needed to pay in order to vote.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Outlawing the poll taxes gave everybody the chance to vote, whether rich or poor, white or colored everyone had an equal opportunity.
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    Freedom Summer is an attempt to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi (which bwas the state that was part of the South). By doing this, the African Americans have an equal chance to vote.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Equality is finally estabalished, mno matter the race, age, or sex, people are people, humans should have always been treating one another equally