By , the percentage of the adult Black population on Southern voter rolls surpassed that in the rest of the country, the historian James C. Cobb wrote in , adding that by the mids there were more Black people in public office in the South than in the rest of the nation combined.
In , turnout of Black voters exceeded that of white voters for the first time in history, as Holder that it was unconstitutional to require states with a history of voter discrimination to seek federal approval before changing their election laws. Supporters argue such measures are designed to prevent voter fraud, while critics say they—like poll taxes and literacy tests before them—disproportionately affect poor, elderly, Black and Latino voters.
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Animals Wild Cities Morocco has 3 million stray dogs. Meet the people trying to help. Maryland becomes the last state to remove religious restrictions when it passes legislation enfranchising Jews. White men can no longer be denied the right to vote on the basis of their religion.
Women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. Newspaper editor and abolitionist Frederick Douglass attends and gives a speech supporting universal voting rights, which helps convince the convention to adopt a resolution calling for women's suffrage. However, English language requirements and violent intimidation limit access to voting rights. North Carolina is the last state to remove property ownership as a requirement to vote.
Citizenship is defined and granted to former slaves. Voters, however, are explicitly defined as male. Although the amendment forbids states from denying any rights of citizenship, voting regulation is still left in the hands of the states.
It states that the right to vote cannot be denied by the federal or state governments based on race. However, soon after, some states begin to enact measures such as voting taxes and literacy tests that restrict the actual ability of African Americans to register to vote. Violence and other intimidation tactics are also used. Social reformer and women's rights activist Susan B Anthony is arrested and brought to trial in Rochester, New York for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
At the same time, Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved woman and advocate for justice and equality, appears at a polling booth in Grand Rapids, Michigan, demanding a ballot. She is turned away. The Supreme Court rules that Native Americans are not citizens as defined by the 14th Amendment and, thus, cannot vote.
Dawes Act passed. It grants citizenship to Native Americans who give up their tribal affiliations. Wyoming admitted to statehood and becomes first state to legislate voting for women in its constitution.
The Indian Naturalization Act grants citizenship to Native Americans whose applications are approved - similar to the process of immigrant naturalisation. Supreme Court rules that people of Japanese heritage are ineligible to become naturalised citizens.
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