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The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states have the power to set voting requirements. A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2]
Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. African Americans were fully enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, some Black people in the United States had the right to vote, but this right was often abridged or taken away.
When the United States Constitution was ratified (1789), a small number of free blacks were among the voting citizens (male property owners) in some states. [1] Most black men in the United States were, however, not able to exercise the right to vote until after the American Civil War with the Reconstruction Amendments.
Northern states were generally as averse to granting voting rights to blacks as Southern states. In the year of its ratification, only eight Northern states allowed blacks to vote. [16] In the South, blacks were able to vote in many areas, but only through the intervention of the occupying Union Army. [17]
Maxine Bryant looks at the history of suppressing the Black vote and why it is important for African Americans to show up at the polls on May 24.
Beginning around 1790, individual states began to eschew property ownership as a qualification for enfranchisement in favor of sex and race, with most states disenfranchising women and non-white men. [17] By 1856, white men were allowed to vote in all states regardless of property ownership, although requirements for paying tax remained in five ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968 were all passed during this time, and Democratic support for racial justice attracted even more Black voters.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...