{"id":1979,"date":"2012-08-05T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:27","slug":"voting-rights-timeline-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/voting-rights-timeline-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights Timeline in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting rights in the US are closely tied to other important social issues: the right to own property, First Amendment free speech rights, rights to assemble and to be the master of one’s own destiny. These resources show when the right to vote was obtained by various populations of American society.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Timeline by Center for Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n

Timeline by the ACLU in graphic format<\/a> and as a pdf file<\/a><\/p>\n

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The voting rights timelines does not address two other serious voting rights issues being played out in the US: using felony disenfranchisement as a mechanism to prevent Black men (plus some women) and Latinos from exercising their voting rights, which has become a type of apartheid in these communities. \"\"<\/a>Michelle Alexander writes about this in her book, The New Jim Crow<\/a> and the concerted Republican effort put in place since the first GWB election in 2000 which seeks to purge legitimate voters from voting rolls in targeted communities and otherwise restrict voting rights across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also see To students of real history, corruption doesn’t look worse today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voting rights in the US are closely tied to other important social issues: the right to own property, First Amendment free speech rights, rights to assemble and to be the master of one’s own destiny. These resources show when the right to vote was obtained by various populations of American society. Timeline by Center for … <\/p>\n

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