Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were women's rights activists. They led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, that prohibited gender discrimination in voting.
It outlawed voting discrimination based on race.
The Fifteenth Amendment was passed after the Civil War, specifically in 1870. It granted African American men the right to vote and prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. However, it did not prevent other forms of voter discrimination, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation tactics targeted at African American voters.
Four Constitutional amendments dealt with voting rights. They are: The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870 and prohibited discrimination because of race, particularly in regard to African-American males. The Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, It was ratified in 1920. The Twenty-third Amendment:was ratified in 1961 and granted citizens residing in the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections, Ratified in 1971, the Twenty-sixth Amendment reduced the minimum voting age from 21 to 18.
There has never been 'age discrimination' for voting. The Constitution originally said you had to be 21 to vote in a Federal Election. The 26th Amendment reduced the minimum age to 18. So you could say that it still discriminates against anyone younger than 18.
in the 50's-60's due to racial discrimination in voting rights
so there's no discrimination in voting
racial and gender discrimination
It prohibited poll taxes. APEX(:
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a major step forward in Civil Right for African-American. Although the won the right to vote with the 14th Amendment, the VRA helped end racial discrimination in voting.
racial segregation and discrimination
The 15th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits denying voting rights to people based on race or color
Not in the US. Any discrimination based on race is prohibited by law. That includes voting rights.
it lowered the voting age to 18
It outlawed voting discrimination based on race.
An example of the enforcement clause being exercised is the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 following the 15th Amendment. This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, and provided federal oversight of elections in states with a history of voter suppression.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited voter discrimination on the basis of race, which primarily applied to African-American males (African-American women couldn't vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920) Yet, it really wasn't until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that many black citizens were really able to vote. Many laws were passed to keep black citizens from voting for the 100 years. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and threats were used against people to keep them from voting. Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment and in reality they were able to vote before black citizens, except for black women who still had to fight the racial discrimination.