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Voting Medal, ca. 1870-1890.
Gift of Joseph R. and Ruth Lasser, Acc. #2001-842.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 1965 Voting Rights Act prohibited the states from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting. The act had an immediate impact. Within months of its passage on August 6, 1965, one quarter of a million new black voters had been registered. Within four years, voter registration in the South had more than doubled.
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Medal Honoring the First Black Voter in the United States
On March 31, 1870, only one month after the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Mundy Peterson became the first African American to vote in an election.
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Teaching
Strategy: Citizenship and Voting
In America, citizenship and voting rights in America have evolved over time. During much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, voting was reserved for white, male, property owners twenty-one years of age or older. African Americans, Native Americans, and women, were excluded from the process of participatory government by its citizens.
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Colonial Williamsburg is pleased to announce a partnership with Scott Foresman publishers for California History-Social Science. Colonial Williamsburg historians worked with selected California teachers to write activities for every California State History-Social Science State Standard. See the amazing results in Scott Forseman History-Social Science for California—it's revolutionary! For more information, email michael.white@scottforesman.com.
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"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."
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