Voting rights in America : primary documents in context / Bridgett A. King, editor

Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2020]
Copyright Date: ©2020
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 344 pages)
Additional Creators: King, Bridgett A.

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Introduction -- On the Outside of the Voting Booth Looking In: Early America to 1850 -- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639 -- Pennsylvania Passes Legislation to "Regulate the Elections," 1700 -- The People the Best Governors, 1776 -- The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 -- Federal Naturalization Laws, 1790 and 1795 -- A "Lady" Asserts That American Principles of Freedom "Embrace Only Half Mankind," 1800 -- Maryland Passes an Act Allowing Jews to Hold Public Office, 1826 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Calls for Women's Suffrage at Seneca Falls, 1848 -- California Eliminates Property and Wealth Requirements to Vote, 1849 -- Demanding, Getting, and Losing the Vote: 1850 -1925 -- Ernestine Rose Demands Universal Suffrage, 1851 -- Frederick Douglass Tells America "What the Black Man Wants," 1865 -- Congress Passes the Enforcement Acts to Protect African American Voting Rights, 1870, 1871 -- Announcement of the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment Guaranteeing Black Men the Right to Vote, 1870 -- Susan B. Anthony's Stump Speech on Suffrage, 1873 -- The Supreme Court Hands Suffragists a Defeat in Minor v. Happersett, 1874 -- President Ulysses S. Grant Denounces Attacks on Black Voters and Republican Officeholders in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana, 1875 -- Supreme Court Cripples Black Voting Rights in U.S. v. Cruikshank, 1876 -- The "Mississippi Plan," 1890 -- Lucy Stone Addresses Congressional Committee on Women's Suffrage, 1892 -- Black Suffragist Frances E. W. Harper Discusses "Woman's Political Future," 1893 72Supreme Court Upholds Jim Crow Literacy Tests in Williams v. Mississippi, 1898 -- A Pennsylvania Congressman Defends the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, 1904 -- Jane Addams Asserts That Women Armed with the "Franchise" Will Redress Social Ills, 1912 -- Seventeenth Amendment Provides for "Direct Elections" of U.S. Senators, 1913 -- Black Writers and Activists Unite to Call for Women's Suffrage, 1915 -- Carrie Chapman Catt Tells Congress That Women's Suffrage Is "Inevitable," 1917 -- Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin Urges Colleagues to Pass a Suffrage Amendment, 1918 -- Nineteenth Amendment Granting Women the Vote, 1919 -- Crystal Eastman Discusses the Work Ahead after the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, 1920 -- Congresses Passes the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 -- Civil Rights and the Fight for the Franchise: 1925 -1970 -- Supreme Court Strikes Down All-White Primaries in Texas, 1932 -- Thurgood Marshall Exults over Voter Registration Trends in the South, 1946 -- Presidential Commission on Civil Rights Condemns Persistent "Negro Disenfranchisement" in the American South, 1947.

Summary

"Through primary sources, this volume examines the history, evolution, and major contemporary controversies associated with voting rights in the United States, devoting particular attention to demographic groups including women, young people, people of color, and poor people"--

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1440871558 ebook
9781440871559 ebook
9781440871542 hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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