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A 25-year extension of the VRA is signed by President Ronald Reagan. [30] 1983. Texas repeals the lifelong prohibition against voters with felony convictions and institutes a five year waiting period after completing a sentence to vote. [62] 1985. Texas changes the five year waiting period to two years for people with felony convictions. [62] 1986
The first African American to vote in the United States after the passage of the 15th Amendment Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey , has been claimed to be the first African American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution .
Andreas Byrenheidt, a 70-year-old physician, [232] placed an unusually long and detailed runaway slave ad in two Alabama newspapers in hopes of recovering a 20-year-old enslaved woman, whom he had purchased four years earlier, and her four-year-old daughter, who sometimes called herself Lolo ("$100 Reward" Cahawba Democrat, Cahaba, Alabama ...
"Silent Sentinels" begin a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-year campaign in front of the White House (1917). When World War I started in 1914, women in eight states had already won the right to vote, but support for a federal amendment was still tepid. The war provided a new urgency to the fight for the vote.
Women won the vote in dozens of states in the 1910s, and African-American women became a powerful voting block. [ 6 ] The struggle for the vote did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, [ 5 ] which expanded voting rights substantially, but did not address the racial terrorism that prevented African Americans in ...
The Georgia WCTU softened their stance on women's suffrage that year, allowing McLendon to welcome suffragists to their convention. [42] In March 1914, a suffrage rally was held in Atlanta with famous women such as Jane Addams speaking. [43] Also in 1914, the Georgia Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage (GAOWS) was formed in Macon. [44]
The campaigns were also changed by a general enlargement of the voting franchise—the states began removing or reducing property and tax qualifications for suffrage and by the early 19th century the great majority of free adult white males could vote (Rhode Island refused until a serious rebellion took place in 1844).
Oklahoma immediately implemented a new voting statute which restricted voter registration, stating that "[a]ll persons, except those who voted in 1914, who were qualified to vote in 1916 but who failed to register between April 30 and May 11, 1916, with some exceptions for sick and absent persons who were given an additional brief period to ...