Index: Voting Rights

Feb 3,

1870

Fifteenth Amendment, Guaranteeing Right to Vote, is Ratified

Jan 11,

1885

Alice Paul, Suffragist Leader, Equal Rights Advocate, is Born

Dec 8,

1913

President Wilson Declines to Endorse Women’s Suffrage

Oct 23,

1915

33,000 March in New York City Suffrage Parade

Dec 5,

1916

Suffragists Protest at President Wilson’s Annual Message to Congress

Jan 10,

1917

Alice Paul Begins Picketing White House Again for Women’s Suffrage

Oct 20,

1917

Suffragist Alice Paul Arrested For Picketing White House

Jan 9,

1918

President Wilson Finally Supports Women’s Right to Vote

Nov 5,

1918

“As Natural as Breathing” – Women Vote for First Time in a New York Election

Feb 9,

1919

Suffragists Burn Effigy of President Wilson in Front of White House

Aug 18,

1920

Women Get the Vote – 19th Amendment Ratified

Feb 27,

1922

Supreme Court Upholds 19th Amendment Granting Women the Right to Vote

Oct 17,

1924

Democrats Accuse Republicans of Coercing Votes of Federal Employees

Mar 7,

1927

Texas White Primary Held Unconstitutional (For a While, Anyway)

Dec 6,

1937

Supreme Court Declares Poll Tax Constitutional

May 17,

1957

“Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom:” 1957 Civil Rights March on Washington

Nov 14,

1960

Tuskegee, Alabama,Voting District Violates the 15th Amendment

Mar 29,

1961

23rd Amendment Ratified, District of Columbia Residents Get to Vote in Presidential Elections

Jul 1,

1961

New York Civil Liberties Union Fights NY “English Only” Voting Requirement

Nov 17,

1961

Albany, Georgia, Civil Rights Campaign Begins – Kennedy Administration Fails to Support

Jun 9,

1963

Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist, Savagely Beaten in Mississippi Jail

Jun 15,

1964

Supreme Court Establishes “One Man, One Vote” Rule

Nov 3,

1964

First Washington, D.C., Vote for President

Jan 15,

1965

LBJ Calls Martin Luther King – Plan Voting Rights Strategy

Mar 7,

1965

“Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama: John Lewis, Other Marchers Beaten and Tear Gassed

Mar 15,

1965

“We . . . Shall . . . Overcome:” LBJ Gives Historic Voting Rights Speech

Mar 16,

1965

LBJ Sends Federal Troops to Guard Selma Voting Rights March

Mar 21,

1965

Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March Begins Again

Apr 27,

1965

SCOPE Voter Registration Drive Launched

Aug 6,

1965

LBJ Signs Historic Voting Rights Act

Mar 24,

1966

All Poll Taxes Declared Unconstitutional

Jul 5,

1971

18-Year-Olds Finally Get the Right to Vote

Feb 13,

1982

ACLU Report: Voting Discrimination Continues in South

Jun 25,

2013

Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act: “Shelby County v. Holder”

Dec 31,

2014

Acclaimed Film “Selma” Provokes Controversy over President Johnson, Other Issues

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