When did blacks,women and native americans get the right to vote in america?
For Native Americans the exact date of any given right is very hard to declair beause of the variation and compliance from state to state. Native Americans were given the right to citizenship on June 2, 1924, however the proclaimtion wasn’t declaired until June 15th that same year. Some states didn’t comply with the proclaimation and voting rights until 1948 and even 1957. The interesting thing is that Native Americans have always fought for the United States in all of it’s wars. Even to this day voting locations are sometimes removed from reservation land without warning, giving the tribal voters no time to fill out the proper paperwork for mail-in ballots.
Blacks got the vote right after the Civil War. It was subsequently taken away from most of them in the South by making all voters pay a poll tax (can you imagine having to pay a tax to exercise a constitutional right?), pass an 8th grade literacy test, and other stratagems. This didn’t deny the vote to all blacks, as middle class blacks didn’t regard the poll tax as a heavy burden, and middle class blacks could pass the literacy tests as well. Even so, it disenfranchised a whole lot of people. Women gained the right to vote piecemeal – Wyoming and Utah were very early in granting women the right to vote (1870 something in the case of Wyoming). But nationally it happened with the passage of the (19th? 20th?) amendment to the Constitution about 1920. Native Americans were granted full citizenship in 1925.
