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Feb 3, 2020 · The lasting power of the 15th Amendment, which awarded African Americans the right to vote, resonates today in courtrooms across America.
- National Correspondent
Northern states were generally as averse to granting voting rights to blacks as Southern states. In the year of its ratification, only eight Northern states allowed blacks to vote. In the South, blacks were able to vote in many areas, but only through the intervention of the occupying Union Army.
In Lincoln’s final speech on April 11, 1865, he said that Black people should be allowed to vote — at least those who served in the military and are literate.
America's long history of Black voter suppression. A timeline of new and old efforts to limit the political power of Black Americans and other voters of color. Analysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN....
Oct 26, 2020 · Undaunted, 4,000 African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi the day after the shooting as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael joined the march. Suppression efforts have continued, and, in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal government’s ability to block states’ voting restrictions.
In 1855, only five states—Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont—allowed African Americans to vote without significant restrictions. In 1826, only sixteen black New Yorkers were qualified to vote.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the suppression of the right to vote based on one’s racial/ethnic identity intensified, and only a few northern states allowed African American men to vote.
