Not before the age was decreased in 1971
2007-12-25 01:56:46 · 6 answers · asked by Z H 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I know they had a lot of trouble voting in Florida and Ohio in 2000.
2007-12-25 02:00:00 · answer #1 · answered by Ann Marie J 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Fifteenth Amendment took hold in 1870, giving Black males the vote, but not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were minorities guaranteed an unfettered right to vote. Before that, racists used all sorts of artifices, like literacy tests and voting fees, to deny people the vote.
2007-12-25 02:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All Americans were given the right to vote from the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independance. Unfortunately, it took the Civil War and the murder of children and civil rights activists in the 50's and 60's to get it enforced.
2007-12-25 02:53:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fifteenth Amendment, 1870.
2007-12-25 01:59:07 · answer #4 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Minorities always had the right to vote in the United States of America (I'm not counting plumbing.), although that right was sometimes denied using tests that tended to disqualify one or another group of people. -yk
2007-12-25 05:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My wife said I can this year
2007-12-25 02:04:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋