Essay
Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights
Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution
The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the US Commission on Civil Rights to investigate voter restrictions. It also established the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
Teaching Resource
Securing the Right to Vote: The Selma-to-Montgomery Story
Essential Question
What conditions created the need for a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, and what did that march achieve?
BackgroundThroughout American history, African Americans have struggled to gain basic civil rights, such as the right to vote. When marchers gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, to demand voting rights, the nation was forced to acknowledge the depth and breadth of racial discrimination and bigotry that existed in the...