POLS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Twenty-Fourth Amendment Of The Constitution Of India
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2 Aug 2020
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Suffrage ❁◕ ‿ ◕❁
❁ suffrage - legal right to vote, extended to
African Americans by the 15th amendment
❁ to women by the 19th amendment
❁ 18 to 20-year-olds by 26th
amendment
❁ 15th amendment - constitutional
amendment adopted in 1870 to extend
suffrage to African Americans
❁ “the right of citizens to vote shall not
be abridged by the U.S. or by any state on
account of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude”