Lesson 20: How Has the Right to Vote Been Expanded since the Adoption of the Constitution?
Alabama Literacy test in 1965
Alabama's Literacy Test in 1965. Such tests were used as a requirement to register to vote until restrictions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 made them all but illegal.
Link: https://goo.gl/ns1Qog
Johnson
President Johnson's speech to the full Congress asking for their support to pass a voting rights bill guaranteeing that right to African Americans.
Link: https://bit.ly/2vA6h9w
United States Constitution
The supreme law of the United States that provides the framework for the government. The Constitution outlines the nation's institutions of government and the most important rights of the people. The document was created in 1787 during the Philadelphia Convention. The government created by the Constitution took effect on March 4, 1789.
Link: http://civiced.org/constitution
