The Freedom Summer was a public campaign to help register African Americans to vote in the deep south in the summer of 1964.
The effects that the Voting Rights Acts had on African Americans' participation in government was on who they could vote in and out of office who shared what they believed were good ideas and beliefs.
voting. this act gave African Americans the right to vote
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
It restricted their economic rights, they could not vote, hold office, serve on a jury or receive a public education.
It guaranteed the rights for African Americans to vote and it put an end to segregation as well.
the 15 amendment
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
He didn't. They couldn't vote. It wasn't until the 1960's that African Americans could vote because of the voting rights act.
The civil rights laws and voting rights laws gave African Americans the voting rights in 1965. This was a hundred years after the civil war amendments and 45 years after women got the rights to vote.
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The day that African Americans were allowed to vote is an important date. August 6th, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which allowed African Americans the right to vote.
None. By 1965 voting rights laws the 50 states gave African Americans voting rights.
Radical white southerners did everything in their power to oppose rights for African Americans. Namely, the white southerners would African Americans to take tests and pay outrageous fees in order to vote.
50 years.
It allowed the African American to have as much rights as the White man but those rights did not take effect until after martan Luther king Jr. died.