LibGuides: Race and the Law: Voting Rights

Legislation

Fifteenth Admendment

Fifteenth Amendment from ABC-CLIO American History

Voting Rights Act

Voting Rights Act, from ABC-CLIO American History

Reference Sources

Apportionment from West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Political Question from American Governance
Fifteenth Amendment from ABC-CLIO American History
Voting Rights from CQ Researcher
Poll Tax from Encyclopedia of Economic History
Jim Crow and Voting Rights from Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
includes discussion of white primaries, poll tax

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