when were africanamericans allowed to vote in america?
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After the Civil war for a short period.\nThen poll taxes and literacy test were introduced in Southern states.  These worked to keep blacks from voting along with threats and acts of violence until the 1960 Civil rights act-when everyone was granted the right to vote, at east in theory.  There were only a few black voters  in Southern states until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bared discrimination of all types based on race.  But the literacy test and poll taxes stayed in place until the National Voting Rights Act of 1965.  When they were mad entirely illegal.
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No. This is not true. In order to vote in the USA, you must be a registered voter and show proof at the polls.
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No.  In the U.S., the right to vote is a fundamental right, and generally cannot be conditioned on any status other than citizenship or felony conviction.
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No, registering to vote is always free.  Poll taxes and fees used to be use to screen out poor minorities, but that is long gone now.
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The first instance of it was in 1866 appearing under the umbrella of civil rights laws.   \n  \nOriginally, civil rights programs were enacted to help African Americans become full citizens of the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal; the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law; the Fifteenth Amendment forbids racial discrimination in access to voting. The 1866 Civil Rights Act guarantees every citizen "the same right to make and enforce contracts ... as is enjoyed by white citizens ... " \n\nIn 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld a "separate, but equal" doctrine that proved to be anything but equal for African Americans. The decision marked the end of the post-Civil War reconstruction era as Jim Crow laws spread across the South. \n\nIn 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 which outlawed segregationist hiring policies by defense-related industries which held federal contracts. Roosevelt's signing of this order was a direct result of efforts by Black trade union leader, A. Philip Randolph. \n\nDuring 1953 President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Government Contract Compliance urged the Bureau of Employment Security "to act positively and affirmatively to implement the policy of nondiscrimination . . . ." \n\nThe 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. The actual phrase "affirmative action" was first used in President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Executive Order 11246 which requires federal contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." \n\nIn 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women. \nOther equal protection laws passed to make discrimination illegal were the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title II and VII of which forbid racial discrimination in "public accommodations" and race and sex discrimination in employment, respectively; and the 1965 Voting Rights Act adopted after Congress found "that racial discrimination in voting was an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of the country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution." \n\nMuch of the opposition to affirmative action is framed on the grounds of so-called "reverse discrimination and unwarranted preferences." In fact, less than 2 percent of the 91,000 employment discrimination cases pending before the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission are reverse discrimination cases. Under the law as written in Executive Orders and interpreted by the courts, anyone benefitting from affirmative action must have relevant and valid job or educational qualifications.
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Once upon a time (in the United States), only white land-owning males were allowed to vote. The concern of a higher turn-out was not relevant at that time, as the voting population had the discretion to take a day off for the purpose of voting if they chose to do so. Remember, black males didn't get the right to vote until after passage of the 14th (equal protection under the law) amendment, and women didn't have the vote until passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.\n\nNowadays, it would be more logical to hold elections on a Saturday, or over a weekend...or do as we do here in Oregon: conduct all votes by mail....in effect making all voters into "absentee voter"
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1919 for Belgian women to vote.\nCheck out this site for more:\nhttp://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm
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I don't know if you remember the last election.  John Kerry's wife was born and raised in Mozambique.  She defined her self as an African-American.  Which is accurate in a geographic sense.\n\nAfrican American, as it is used today, is a political/ethnic lable, not geographic.  I don't think that this person would be eligible for any minority assistance.  This illustrates one of the issues with race based incentives.\n\nFor example, if you are of pure spanish decent, but from south america, you are listed as a hispanic.  If you are of pure spanish decent, but from spain, you are caucasian.\n\nI attended a traditionally black college in North Carolina (I'm white).  I received a scholarship from the state as a minority student while I was there.\n\nEthnic/race politics are very odd and confusing.  \n\nOf course, you could ask the question, why not just be an American?
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"Until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, Indians occupied an unusual status under federal law. Some had acquired citizenship by marrying white men. Others received citizenship through military service, by receipt of allotments, or through special treaties or special statutes. But many were still not citizens, and they were barred from the ordinary processes of naturalization open to foreigners. Congress took what some saw as the final step on June 2, 1924 and granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States."\n\nDred Scott v. Sandford (1857): Decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens; struck down the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional.\n\nIn 1914, as the women’s suffrage amendment languished in Congress, Samuel McChord Crothers, a popular essayist and a Harvard Square–based Unitarian minister, made the case for equal suffrage. (The amendment did not pass that year, however; American women would not win the right to vote for another six years.)
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One form of voting restriction aimed specifically at African Americans was the Grandfather clause that allowed men to register to vote only if they could have voted in 1867 (before African Americans were allowed to vote in the South) or descended from an 1867 voter. This excerpt from the Louisiana law of 1898 was typical of many such restrictions. The cumulative effect of the different restriction efforts was to reduce overall voting levels by more than a third and black voting rates by almost two thirds. \nIf you have more questions about this, you can look at this link:  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5352
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When African Americans came
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Women were not allowed to be in public office or vote in those days. The only powerful women in those days were the wives of the president, and not very powerful at that. \n\nAmerican women were not given the vote until 1920.
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It's not possible to deny other ethnic groups the right to vote in this country. There would be race riots that would tear the U.S. apart.
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The Constitution mandates elections to be held on Tuesday.\n\nIt started that way, because the country was originally mostly farmers and rural communities.  For a person to get to their polling place, it might take a day's ride into the nearest town. Sunday was already set aside for church, so voting on Tuesday would give the person Monday to ride to town, then Tuesday to vote and go home again.
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Egads!  They didn't.  The Constitution did not set election day at all.\n\nThe Tuesday after the first Monday in November was initially established in 1845 (3 U.S.C. 1) for the appointment of Presidential electors in every fourth year. 2 U.S.C. 7 established this date for electing U.S. Representatives in every even numbered year in 1875. Finaly, 2 U.S.C. 1 established this date as the time for electing U.S. Senators in 1914.
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Women got the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment in the United States\n\nIn Canada women got the right to vote in 1918 and the right to stand for election in 1920
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Women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920. Some states had passed laws prior to 1920 giving women the right to vote, and some women had won election to public office before the 19th Amendment became law. Women in England did not win full voting rights until 1928, however.