Timeline Copyright Credits

The primary sources for Timeline: Voting Rights are:

1.  Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, tolerance.org,

from Democracy Class: The History of Voting Rights (Rock the Vote and Teaching Tolerance)

https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/TT-Voting-Rights-Timeline-Handout-October-2020.pdf

2. Voting Rights Timeline, businessinsider.com

3. Timeline of voting rights in the United States. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:53, June 30, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States&oldid=1028075166

4. DOCSTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives

https://www.docsteach.org

5. ACLU Voting Rights Act: Major Dates in History

https://www.aclu.org/voting-rights-act-major-dates-history

 

Additional sources are noted within specific entries to Timeline: Voting Rights.

 

 

 

 

“If the negro knows enough to fight for his country he knows enough to vote; if he knows enough to pay taxes for the support of the government, he knows enough to vote; if he knows as much when sober, as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote”.

— Frederick Douglass