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How so? Constitution includes an amendment that prohibits government from using sex as a criteria for voting rights. The 19th Amendment did not eliminate the state laws that operated to keep Black Americans from the polls via poll taxes and literacy tests—nor did the 19th Amendment address violence or lynching.
Some African-American women will vote with the 19th Amendment. One way to tell this story is that white suffragists launch, by , a two-pronged campaign for a federal amendment. At the same time, figures like Carrie Chapman Catt are working through more conventional political channels to win the ear and ultimately the mind of men like Woodrow Wilson.
This two-pronged approach gains a momentum, particularly during years of the First World War. There are ultimately enough lawmakers in Washington who are willing to endorse or send to the states a constitutional amendment. And that then opens another chapter, because there still is a matter of persuading state-level lawmakers to ratify the amendment and that campaign will culminate in August of in the state of Tennessee , which is the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy, the organization responsible for many Confederate monuments that litter the American landscape, proposes a monument in Washington, D. That monument is defeated even as many other Confederate monuments, as we know today, were successfully installed both in Washington and across the country. Hallie Quinn Brown , the president of the NACW, said if southern white women want to erect a monument to formerly enslaved women, they can do it by encouraging their lawmaker husbands to pass civil rights legislation that would guarantee to Black Americans decent housing, education, healthcare and more.
What Should Take Their Place? In states that had fought for the Union during the Civil War, legislators could not use the Reconstruction Acts to directly intervene in elections and shape qualifications for voting. At the same time, state-level referendums that would have extended suffrage to Black men in the North and West stalled and failed in mids. In election after election, Northern and Western voters made it clear that, while they would support enfranchising Black men in the South, they had little interest in adding them to the electorate in their home states.
The unresolved debate over Black male suffrage shaped the presidential election of Fearful that Northern voters would reject their party's approach to Reconstruction, the Republican Party nominated a candidate with guaranteed broad appeal throughout the North and West: Ulysses S.
The Democratic Party's platform openly criticized how the Reconstruction acts had stripped former Confederate states of their right to regulate voting at the state level, free of federal oversight.
This was a thinly veiled attack on Black male suffrage. The party's candidate for vice president, Francis Preston Blair Jr. Blair condemned Republican leaders for substituting "as electors in place of men of our race. Although the Republican Party platform continued to support extending the right to vote to all Southern men, irrespective of race, it fell far short of calling for Black male suffrage nationwide. Rather than risk alienating white voters in the North and West, the party pledged to leave states that had remained loyal to the Union the authority to regulate voting rights, even if that meant those states continued to deprive Black men of the vote.
Ulysses S. Grant's narrow victory in encouraged members of the Republican Party to reconsider their position. On one hand, many contemporaries believed that the party's support for Black men's voting rights—tepid though it was—had cost it votes. At the same time, Republican leaders were cheered to see that newly-enfranchised Black men throughout the South had come out to support Grant's election.
Enfranchising Black men nationwide would, they hoped, secure their party's political future. Other elected officials who supported Black male suffrage for less politically motivated reasons were cheered by the moderate victories the cause had secured in , as voters in states like Iowa and Minnesota had voted in favor of laws that allowed Black men to vote.
Though conflicting, these various signals were enough to convince a majority of Republicans in Congress that their party should act quickly to enfranchise Black men nationwide before the political winds shifted against them.
Therefore, at the start of Congress's session in late , Republican members of Congress were primed to support an amendment to the Constitution that would nationalize Black male suffrage.
Instead of whether a Fifteenth Amendment should be created, the question became: what should it say? Skip to main content. Blog Home About Archive. In , Black suffrage was on the ballot.
By Jordan Grant , February 27, This commemorative print showcased the signatures of members of Congress who supported the Thirteenth Amendment. President Lyndon B. Johnson celebrates with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before passage of the Voting Rights Act, an estimated 23 percent of eligible Black voters were registered nationwide; by that number rose to 61 percent.
By , the percentage of the adult Black population on Southern voter rolls surpassed that in the rest of the country, the historian James C. Cobb wrote in , adding that by the mids there were more Black people in public office in the South than in the rest of the nation combined.
In , turnout of Black voters exceeded that of white voters for the first time in history, as Holder that it was unconstitutional to require states with a history of voter discrimination to seek federal approval before changing their election laws. Supporters argue such measures are designed to prevent voter fraud, while critics say they—like poll taxes and literacy tests before them—disproportionately affect poor, elderly, Black and Latino voters.
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