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This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. Contents 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1980s
Timeline of voting rights in the United States; Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States; Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States; Trial of Susan B. Anthony; Banks Turner; Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The American Civil Rights Movement, through such events as the Selma to Montgomery marches and Freedom Summer in Mississippi, gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized federal oversight of voter registration and election practices and other enforcement of voting rights. Congress passed the ...
In a 232-183 vote, the House approves a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification in a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment. Feb. 28, 2023. A federal appeals court in Washington dismisses a case brought by two Democratic-led states seeking to have the U.S. archivist publish and certify the ERA as part of the Constitution.
How people vote in the U.S. paints the political color of the entire country. However, it was never as simple as just going out to vote. Learn about the entire history of Americans’ struggles ...
In August 1965, law school student Mitch McConnell was in his 20s and a veteran of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he heard Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the "I Have a Dream ...
1883: Women in the Washington territory are granted full voting rights. [3] 1884: The U.S. House of Representatives debates women's suffrage. [6] 1886: The suffrage amendment is defeated two to one in the U.S. Senate. [6] 1887: The Edmunds–Tucker Act takes the vote away from women in Utah in order to suppress the Mormon vote in the Utah ...
1777– All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk.