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When the 15th amendment was ratified, it gave African Americans men the legal right to vote as a United States citizen. The southern states fought against allow the men to vote until the Voting Rights Act was put into place.
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Which of these gave freedom citizenship and voting rights to African Americans after the Civil War?
Reconstruction Amendments ~ APEX
Who is called the Father of Black History?
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)"However, there is one major early historian of Africa in the best modern sense. This is Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), who, if he were better known to western scholars, might well usurp Herodotus' title of 'the father of history.' Iban Khaldun was, of course, a North African, native of Tunis. Part of his work is concerned with Africa.""The development of African historiography" by J.D. Fage 26-27As far as African American history goes:Years before there were any black history departments, Franklin was researching the stories of African-Americans. His interest in African American history began while he was a graduate student in the 1930s, and he published the book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans in 1947.Franklin was the first African-American to hold an endowed chair at Duke University, the first African-American chairman of the University of Chicago's history department and the first African-American president of the American Historical Association.Franklin also contributed to pivotal events of the civil rights movement; he worked with Thurgood Marshall's team of lawyers in the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education and he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr in a 1965 protest for voting rights in Montgomery, Alabama.
How were protest movements after World War 2 handled by various governments?
President Johnson took up the cause of civil rights. The Civil Rights Act in 1964 created the machinery to end segregation and discrimination in the workplace and all public places. The Voting Rights Act the following year made it easier for African Americans to vote in southern states. Laws alone, however, could not guarantee the Great Society that Johnson talked about creating. He soon faced bitter social unrest.
The history of voting in America is the history of the expansion of?
suffrage :) apex
Who were the first people to use voting to make major decisions?
the usa
What are the grandfather clauses of?
ways to prevent african americans from voting.
What are the grandfather clauses examples of?
ways to prevent african americans from voting.
What did Lincoln hope to do about voting after the civil war?
Lincoln hoped to limit voting to a small portion of African Americans.
What did the ku klux klan do diminish voting for African Americans?
They used threats and violence in order to prevent African Americans from voting
How did FDR change the voting patterns of African-Americans?
African Americans began voting for democrats because of FDR. (apex)
How were African-Americans excluded from the voting?
African Americans were often excluded from the voting because they did not own land or pay the taxes required of voters. They were sometimes excluded from voting with the use of laws that excluded them.
What gave freedom citizenship and voting rights to African Americans?
The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US Constitution gave citizenship and voting rights to African-Americans.
When did African Americans get there voting rights?
15th ammement
How did the FDR change the voting patterns of African American?
African Americans began voting for democrats because of FDR. (apex)
Which of the following measures did Radical Republicans support?
The Radical Republicans supported the measure to ensure voting rights for African Americans.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an effort to ensure voting rights for?
African Americans
What did Lincoln hope to do about voting after a civil war?
Limit voting to a small portion of African Americans - APEX
