Literacy Tests and Property Requirements
15th amendment
It was not the fourteenth amendment that specifically gave blacks voting rights. It is the 15th. The 14th gave citizenship and citizenship rights.
The 65 voting rights act wasn't an amendment, but a bill passed by congress.
Balls
The persistent violence against Blacks and voting sent a message to the Republican Party. They passed the 15th amendment to the US Constitution barring race as a test for voting. The amendment said nothing about a state's right to determine requirements for voting other than race. This was a loophole that southern states would exploit for many decades to limit Black voting.
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The 26th Amendment in 1971. It lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Enforcement Act of 1870
The Voting Rights Act, signed in 1965, overcame the barriers that prevented blacks from voting. The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution denied federal and state governments from preventing citizens from voting but did not go far enough.
civil rights act 1866
the 15th admendment
The 15th Amendment deals with voting rights for former male slaves and their descendants. Myers v. Andersonand Guinn v. United States are Supreme Court cases dealing with the unconstitutionality of voter's literacy test and grandfather clause to prevented black males from voting.