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• 30 Aug 11
  

  Denzell Conway
  • In 1944, in Smith v. Allwright, the U.S. Supreme Court   ruled that Texas's Democratic party could not restrict   membership to whites only and bar blacks from voting   in the party's primary. Between 1940 and 1947, the proportion   of Southern blacks registered to vote rose from three   percent to twelve percent.
  • In an effort to bring the issue of voting rights to   national attention, Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, in early   1965
• 

  Kai Rebmann
  • Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women
  • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women.
  • 5 more annotation(s)...
  • • "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.''
    • no lie can live forever.
    • President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote.
    • issues that seem settled sometimes reopen as subjects   for debate
• 

  Ellis Brown
  • The Constitution speaks of "persons"; only rarely does   the document use the word "he." The Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women from congress or from the   presidency or from juries or from voting. The Fourteenth   Amendment included a clause that stated, "No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States."
  • During the early twentieth century, the suffrage movement   became better financed and more militant. It attracted   growing support from women who favored reforms to help   children (such as increased spending on education) and   the prohibition of alcohol. It also attracted growing   numbers of working-class women, who viewed politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.
  • 3 more annotation(s)...
  • • Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896.
    • Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;   laws making it difficult for third parties to appear   on the ballot; the decline of urban political machines;   the rise of at-large municipal elections; and the development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
    • In an effort to bring the issue of voting rights to   national attention, Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, in early   1965. Even though blacks slightly outnumbered whites   in this city of 29,500 people, Selma's voting rolls   were ninety-nine percent white and one percent black.   For seven weeks, King led hundreds of Selma's black   residents to the county courthouse to register to vote.   Nearly 2,000 black demonstrators, including King, were   jailed by County Sheriff James Clark for contempt of   court, juvenile delinquency, and parading without a   permit. After a federal court ordered Clark not to interfere   with orderly registration, the sheriff forced black   applicants to stand in line for up to five hours before   being permitted to take a "literacy" test.   Not a single black voter was added to the registration   rolls.
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  Andrew Schaberg
  • No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States."
  • explicit legislation or constitutional   amendment, rather than through interpretation of the   implications of the Constitution
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  • • degrade women by exposing them to the   corrupt world of politics.
    • prohibition of alcohol.
    • politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.  
      
    • gender gap in voting would become a major   issue in American politics.
    • development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
    • abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
    • "Where do presidential electors   cast ballots for president?
    • March 7, 1965
    • Not long, because no lie can live forever.''
    • Within a year, 450,000 Southern blacks registered   to vote.
    • engthy residence rules for voting were   unconstitutional
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    • e voting age to eighteen.
    • states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
    • successfully   petition to have their voting rights restored
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    • thwarts the will   of a majority of voters
    • ettled sometimes reopen as subjects   for debate.
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  Yukako Ito
  • The Constitution speaks of "persons"; only rarely does   the document use the word "he." The Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women from congress or from the   presidency or from juries or from voting.
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • 10 more annotation(s)...
  • • Wyoming   Territory, eager to increase its population, enfranchised   women in 1869, followed by Utah, which wanted to counter   the increase in non-Mormon voters.
    • It attracted   growing support from women who favored reforms to help   children (such as increased spending on education) and   the prohibition of alcohol. It also attracted growing   numbers of working-class women, who viewed politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.
    • a presidentially   appointed National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
    • "Name the   rights a person has after he has been indicted by a   grand jury."
    • Martin Luther King, Jr
    • "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.''
    • On January 23, the states   completed ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment   to the Constitution barring a poll tax in federal elections.
    • In 1970, as part of an extension   of the Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen.
    • One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote.
    • the debate about what it means to be a truly   democratic society remains an ongoing, unfinished, story.
• 

  Girija H
  • In Minor v. Happersett (1875)   the Supreme Court ruled that women could only receive   the vote as a result of explicit legislation or constitutional   amendment, rather than through interpretation of the   implications of the Constitution. In a unanimous opinion,   the Court observed that it was "too late" to claim the   right of suffrage by implication. It also ruled that   suffrage was a matter for the states, not the federal   government, to decide
  • Wyoming   Territory, eager to increase its population, enfranchised   women in 1869, followed by Utah, which wanted to counter   the increase in non-Mormon voters. Idaho and Colorado   also extended the vote to women in the mid-1890s.
  • 8 more annotation(s)...
  • • It also attracted growing   numbers of working-class women, who viewed politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.
    • Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;   laws making it difficult for third parties to appear   on the ballot; the decline of urban political machines;   the rise of at-large municipal elections; and the development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
    • "I   know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?'   ... How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.''
    • On August 6, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters.
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote.
    • One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote.
    • Another   controversy -- currently being discussed in San Francisco   -- is whether non-citizens should have the right to   vote, for example, in local school board elections.
    • In   short, the debate about what it means to be a truly   democratic society remains an ongoing, unfinished, story.
• 29 Aug 11
  

  Lexi Bollis
  • In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage. But it would take seventy-two   years before most American women could vote. Why did   it take so long? Why did significant numbers of women   oppose women's suffrage?
  • The Constitution speaks of "persons"; only rarely does   the document use the word "he." The Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women from congress or from the   presidency or from juries or from voting. The Fourteenth   Amendment included a clause that stated, "No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States."
  • 12 more annotation(s)...
  • • In a unanimous opinion,   the Court observed that it was "too late" to claim the   right of suffrage by implication. It also ruled that   suffrage was a matter for the states, not the federal   government, to decide
    • National American Woman Suffrage Association
    • During the early twentieth century, the suffrage movement   became better financed and more militant. It attracted   growing support from women who favored reforms to help   children (such as increased spending on education) and   the prohibition of alcohol. It also attracted growing   numbers of working-class women, who viewed politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.
    • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women
    • In 1946, a presidentially   appointed National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans
    • "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.''
    • President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote. In 1970, as part of an extension   of the Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen
    • Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution   barred the states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
    • One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote
    • Another   controversy -- currently being discussed in San Francisco   -- is whether non-citizens should have the right to   vote, for example, in local school board elections
    • the Electoral College arouses controversy,   with critics arguing that our country's indirect system   of electing a president overrepresents small states,   distorts political campaigning, and thwarts the will   of a majority of voters
• 28 Aug 11
  

  John Dunagan
  • The Constitution speaks of "persons"; only rarely does   the document use the word "he."
• 27 Aug 10
  

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• 26 Aug 10
  

  Sharon Elin

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  Vijay Umashanker
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    Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights   by Steven Mintz   John and Rebecca Moores Professor of   History, University of Houston

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    Women's Suffrage     In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage. But it would take seventy-two   years before most American women could vote.
  • "No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States."
    
  • 6 more annotation(s)...
  • • Meanwhile, opponents   of women's suffrage argued that it would increase family   strife, erode the boundaries between masculinity and   femininity, and degrade women by exposing them to the   corrupt world of politics.
    • Women succeeded in getting the vote slowly
    • Participation in presidential elections fell from a   high of about eighty percent overall to about sixty   percent in the North in the 1920s and about twenty percent   in the South.
    • In 1944, in Smith v. Allwright, the U.S. Supreme Court   ruled that Texas's Democratic party could not restrict   membership to whites only and bar blacks from voting   in the party's primary. Between 1940 and 1947, the proportion   of Southern blacks registered to vote rose from three   percent to twelve percent. In 1946, a presidentially   appointed National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, in early   1965. Even though blacks slightly outnumbered whites   in this city of 29,500 people, Selma's voting rolls   were ninety-nine percent white and one percent black.
    • "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.'
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  Jack Howell
  • The Fourteenth   Amendment included a clause that stated, "No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States."
    
  • Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;   laws making it difficult for third parties to appear   on the ballot; the decline of urban political machines;   the rise of at-large municipal elections; and the development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
  • 1 more annotation(s)...
  • • History reminds us that even   issues that seem settled sometimes reopen as subjects   for debate. One example might be whether the voting   age should be lowered again, perhaps to sixteen. In   short, the debate about what it means to be a truly   democratic society remains an ongoing, unfinished, story.
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  Bobby brown
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  Hannah Akre
  • In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage.
  • In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage.
  • 21 more annotation(s)...
  • • n 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage.
    • The Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women from congress or from the   presidency or from juries or from voting.
    • A   number of states, counties, and cities allowed women   to vote in municipal elections, for school boards or   for other educational issues, and on liquor licenses.
    • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women.
    • Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;
    • Between 1940 and 1947, the proportion   of Southern blacks registered to vote rose from three   percent to twelve percent.
    • National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
    • At the end of the 1950s, seven Southern states (Alabama,   Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina South   Carolina, and Virginia) used literacy tests to keep   blacks from voting
    • used poll taxes to   prevent blacks from registering.
    • For seven weeks, King led hundreds of Selma's black   residents to the county courthouse to register to vote.
    • Martin Luther King,   Jr., addressed the crowd and called for an end to segregated   schools, poverty, and voting discrimination.
    • 1965 helped safeguard the voting   rights of black Americans. On January 23, the states   completed ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment   to the Constitution barring a poll tax in federal elections.
    • On August 6, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters.
    • The Supreme Court ruled that literacy tests were illegal   in areas where schools had been segregated, struck down   laws restricting the vote to property-owners or tax-payers,   and held that lengthy residence rules for voting were   unconstitutional.
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote.
    • extension   of the Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen.
    • reduce the voting age   only in federal elections, not in state elections.
    • the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution   barred the states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
    • debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote.
    • whether non-citizens should have the right to   vote,
    • One example might be whether the voting   age should be lowered again, perhaps to sixteen.
• 

  Suzie Kozikowski
  • 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage. But it would take seventy-two   years before most American women could vote.
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • 16 more annotation(s)...
  • • In Minor v. Happersett (1875)   the Supreme Court ruled that women could only receive   the vote as a result of explicit legislation or constitutional   amendment, rather than through interpretation of the   implications of the Constitution.
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and   Susan B. Anthony sought a constitutional amendment.
    • Lucy Stone
    • 1890, the two groups merged to form the   National American Woman Suffrage Association.
    • Meanwhile, opponents   of women's suffrage argued that it would increase family   strife, erode the boundaries between masculinity and   femininity, and degrade women by exposing them to the   corrupt world of politics.
    • A   number of states, counties, and cities allowed women   to vote in municipal elections, for school boards or   for other educational issues, and on liquor licenses.
    • Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896
    • Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;   laws making it difficult for third parties to appear   on the ballot; the decline of urban political machines;   the rise of at-large municipal elections; and the development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
    • In 1946, a presidentially   appointed National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1957 allowed   the Justice Department to seek injunctions and file   suits in voting rights cases, but it only increased   black voting registrations by 200,00
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, in early   1965.
    • On   March 7, 1965, black voting-rights demonstrators prepared   to march.
    • "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.'' On March   25, a crowd of 25,000 gathered at the state capitol   to celebrate the march's completion. Martin Luther King,   Jr., addressed the crowd and called for an end to segregated   schools, poverty, and voting discrimination.
    • On August 6, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters. W
    • war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote.
    • To   prevent states from having to maintain two different   voting rolls, the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution   barred the states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
• 

  billy barnes
  • In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage.
  • Women succeeded in getting the vote slowly.
  • 7 more annotation(s)...
  • • During the early twentieth century, the suffrage movement   became better financed and more militant. It attracted   growing support from women who favored reforms to help   children (such as increased spending on education) and   the prohibition of alcohol. It also attracted growing   numbers of working-class women, who viewed politics   as the way to improve their wages and working conditions.
    • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women.
    • Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896.
    • Two measures adopted in 1965 helped safeguard the voting   rights of black Americans. On January 23, the states   completed ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment   to the Constitution barring a poll tax in federal elections.
    • The Supreme Court ruled that literacy tests were illegal   in areas where schools had been segregated, struck down   laws restricting the vote to property-owners or tax-payers,   and held that lengthy residence rules for voting were   unconstitutional. The court also ruled in the "one-man,   one-vote" Baker v. Carr decision that states could not   give rural voters a disproportionate sway in state legislatures.   Meanwhile, the states eliminated laws that disenfranchised   paupers.
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote. In 1970, as part of an extension   of the Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen. The Supreme Court ruled   that Congress had the power to reduce the voting age   only in federal elections, not in state elections. To   prevent states from having to maintain two different   voting rolls, the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution   barred the states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
    • The history of voting rights is not yet over. Even   today, debate continues. One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote.
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  Connor Delaney
  • Declining Participation in Elections
     
      Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896.   Participation in presidential elections fell from a   high of about eighty percent overall to about sixty   percent in the North in the 1920s and about twenty percent   in the South. Contributing to the decline in voter participation   was single-party dominance in large parts of the country;   laws making it difficult for third parties to appear   on the ballot; the decline of urban political machines;   the rise of at-large municipal elections; and the development   of appointed commissions that administered water, utilities,   police, and transportation, reducing the authority of   elected officials.
  • Voting Rights for African-Americans
     
      In 1944, in Smith v. Allwright, the U.S. Supreme Court   ruled that Texas's Democratic party could not restrict   membership to whites only and bar blacks from voting   in the party's primary. Between 1940 and 1947, the proportion   of Southern blacks registered to vote rose from three   percent to twelve percent. In 1946, a presidentially   appointed National Committee on Civil Rights called   for abolition of poll taxes and for federal action to   protect the voting rights of African-Americans and Native   Americans.
     
      At the end of the 1950s, seven Southern states (Alabama,   Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina South   Carolina, and Virginia) used literacy tests to keep   blacks from voting, while five states (Alabama, Arkansas,   Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia) used poll taxes to   prevent blacks from registering. In Alabama, voters   had to provide written answers to a twenty-page test   on the Constitution and on state and local government.   Questions included: "Where do presidential electors   cast ballots for president?" And "Name the   rights a person has after he has been indicted by a   grand jury." The Civil Rights Act of 1957 allowed   the Justice Department to seek injunctions and file   suits in voting rights cases, but it only increased   black voting registrations by 200,000.
     
      In an effort to bring the issue of voting rights to   national attention, Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, in early   1965. Even though blacks slightly outnumbered whites   in this city of 29,500 people, Selma's voting rolls   were ninety-nine percent white and one percent black.   For seven weeks, King led hundreds of Selma's black   residents to the county courthouse to register to vote.   Nearly 2,000 black demonstrators, including King, were   jailed by County Sheriff James Clark for contempt of   court, juvenile delinquency, and parading without a   permit. After a federal court ordered Clark not to interfere   with orderly registration, the sheriff forced black   applicants to stand in line for up to five hours before   being permitted to take a "literacy" test.   Not a single black voter was added to the registration   rolls.
     
      When a young black man was murdered in nearby Marion,   King responded by calling for a march from Selma to   the state capitol of Montgomery, fifty miles away. On   March 7, 1965, black voting-rights demonstrators prepared   to march. As they crossed a bridge spanning the Alabama   River, 200 state police with tear gas, nightsticks,   and whips attacked them. The march resumed on March   21 with federal protection. The marchers chanted, "Segregation's   got to fall ... you never can jail us all.'' On March   25, a crowd of 25,000 gathered at the state capitol   to celebrate the march's completion. Martin Luther King,   Jr., addressed the crowd and called for an end to segregated   schools, poverty, and voting discrimination. "I   know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?'   ... How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.''  
     
      Two measures adopted in 1965 helped safeguard the voting   rights of black Americans. On January 23, the states   completed ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment   to the Constitution barring a poll tax in federal elections.   At the time, five Southern states still had a poll tax.   On August 6, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters. Within a year, 450,000 Southern blacks registered   to vote.
     
      The Supreme Court ruled that literacy tests were illegal   in areas where schools had been segregated, struck down   laws restricting the vote to property-owners or tax-payers,   and held that lengthy residence rules for voting were   unconstitutional. The court also ruled in the "one-man,   one-vote" Baker v. Carr decision that states could not   give rural voters a disproportionate sway in state legislatures.   Meanwhile, the states eliminated laws that disenfranchised   paupers.
    
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  Christian Catsavis
  • Wyoming   Territory, eager to increase its population, enfranchised   women in 1869, followed by Utah, which wanted to counter   the increase in non-Mormon voters. Idaho and Colorado   also extended the vote to women in the mid-1890s. A   number of states, counties, and cities allowed women   to vote in municipal elections, for school boards or   for other educational issues, and on liquor licenses.
  • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women
  • 5 more annotation(s)...
  • • At the end of the 1950s, seven Southern states (Alabama,   Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina South   Carolina, and Virginia) used literacy tests to keep   blacks from voting, while five states (Alabama, Arkansas,   Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia) used poll taxes to   prevent blacks from registering
    • Not a single black voter was added to the registration   rolls.
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote
    • The history of voting rights is not yet over. Even   today, debate continues. One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote
    • whether non-citizens should have the right to   vote, for example, in local school board election
• 

  heather cousins
  • In 1848, at the first women's rights convention in Seneca   Falls, New York, delegates adopted a resolution calling   for women's suffrage.
  • The Constitution did   not explicitly exclude women
  • 9 more annotation(s)...
  • • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and   Susan B. Anthony
    • t the end of the 1950s, seven Southern states (Alabama,   Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina South   Carolina, and Virginia) used literacy tests to keep   blacks from voting, while five states (Alabama, Arkansas,   Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia) used poll taxes to   prevent blacks from registering
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., launched   a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama,
    • When a young black man was murdered in nearby Marion,   King responded by calling for a march from Selma to   the state capitol of Montgomery,
    • On   March 7, 1965, black voting-rights demonstrators prepared   to march
    • Voting Rights   Act, which prohibited literacy tests and sent federal   examiners to seven Southern states to register black   voters.
    • young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote
    • Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen.
    • he Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution   barred the states and the federal government from denying   the vote to anyone eighteen or older.
• 

  bryan thompson
  • The Fourteenth   Amendment included a clause that stated, "No State shall   make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges   or immunities of citizens of the United States.
  • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women.
  • 2 more annotation(s)...
  • • Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896.   Participation in presidential elections fell from a   high of about eighty percent overall to about sixty   percent in the North in the 1920s and about twenty percent   in the South.
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote.
• 

  Jametria Wright
  • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women. Most suffragists strongly supported the war effort   by selling war bonds and making clothing for the troops.   In addition, women's suffrage seemed an effective way   to demonstrate that the war truly was a war for democracy.
• 25 Aug 10
  

  Blair Koeneman
  • Why did significant numbers of women   oppose women's suffrage?
  • It also ruled that   suffrage was a matter for the states, not the federal   government, to decide.
  • 8 more annotation(s)...
  • • Meanwhile, opponents   of women's suffrage argued that it would increase family   strife, erode the boundaries between masculinity and   femininity, and degrade women by exposing them to the   corrupt world of politics.
    • World War I helped to fuel support for the Nineteenth   Amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to   women. Most suffragists strongly supported the war effort   by selling war bonds and making clothing for the troops.   In addition, women's suffrage seemed an effective way   to demonstrate that the war truly was a war for democracy.
    • In 1944, in Smith v. Allwright, the U.S. Supreme Court   ruled that Texas's Democratic party could not restrict   membership to whites only and bar blacks from voting   in the party's primary
    • literacy tests
    • jailed b
    • The war in Vietnam fueled the notion that young people   who were young enough to die for their country were   old enough to vote
    • One of the most heated debates   is whether or not convicted felons who have served their   time be allowed to vote
    • Electoral College arouses controversy
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  stephanie hruza
  • slowly
  • Nineteenth   Amendmen
  • 7 more annotation(s)...
  • • Voter turnout began to fall after the election of 1896
    • Two measures adopted in 1965 helped safeguard the voting   rights of black Americans. On January 23, the states   completed ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment   to the Constitution barring a poll tax in federal elections
    • Voting Rights   Act
    • , as part of an extension   of the Voting Rights Act, a provision was added lowering   the voting age to eighteen
    • Even   today, debate continues
    • History reminds us that even   issues that seem settled sometimes reopen as subjects   for debate
    • the debate about what it means to be a truly   democratic society remains an ongoing, unfinished, story

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