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  2. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]

  3. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American Civil Rights Movement, through such events as the Selma to Montgomery marches and Freedom Summer in Mississippi, gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized federal oversight of voter registration and election practices and other enforcement of voting rights. Congress passed the ...

  4. Poll taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax (or any other tax) as a pre-condition for voting in federal elections, [19] but made no mention of poll taxes in state elections. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made clarifying remarks which helped to outlaw the practice nationwide, as well as make it enforceable by law.

  5. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [197] [198] While earlier suffragists had believed the two issues could be linked, the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment forced a division between African-American rights and suffrage for women by prioritizing voting rights for black men over universal suffrage for all men and women. [199]

  6. Category : History of voting rights in the United States

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    Native American Voting Rights Act of 2018; Native Americans and women's suffrage in the United States; William Nesbit (activist) Nixon v. Condon; Nixon v. Herndon; Non-citizen suffrage in the United States; Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder

  7. Looking forward on voting rights - AOL

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    Dawson was disappointed in this year’s voter turnout, despite all the work organizations like America Votes did. She said American Votes knocked on doors and made phone calls to more than 30 ...

  8. The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a ... - AOL

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    Election laws had been fairly constant since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by Congress, Shew said. But that changed in 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of ...

  9. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Blacks' regaining the power to vote changed the political landscape of the South. When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, only about 100 African Americans held elective office, all in northern states. By 1989, there were more than 7,200 African Americans in office, including more than 4,800 in the South.