A terrible and bloody Civil War freed enslaved Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted African Americans the rights of citizenship. However, this did not always translate into the ability to vote. Black voters were systematically turned away from state polling places. To combat this problem, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. It says:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Yet states still found ways to circumvent the Constitution and prevent blacks from voting. Poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud and intimidation all turned African Americans away from the polls. Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the "grandfather clause " to keep descendents of slaves out of elections. The clause said you could not vote unless your grandfather had voted -- an impossibility for most people whose ancestors were slaves.

This unfair treatment was debated on the street, in the Congress and in the press. A full fifty years after the Fifteenth Amendment passed, black Americans still found it difficult to vote, especially in the South." What a Colored Man Should Do to Vote", lists many of the barriers African American voters faced.

The fight for African American suffrage raged on for decades. In the 1930s one Georgia man described the situation this way: "Do you know I've never voted in my life, never been able to exercise my right as a citizen because of the poll tax? ... I can't pay a poll tax, can't have a voice in my own government."


Many brave and impassioned Americans protested, marched, were arrested and even died working toward voting equality. In 1963 and 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. brought hundreds of black people to the courthouse in Selma, Alabama to register. When they were turned away, Dr. King organized and led protests that finally turned the tide of American political opinion. In 1964 the Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act directed the Attorney General to enforce the right to vote for African Americans.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act created a significant change in the status of African Americans throughout the South. The Voting Rights Act prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting. Prior to this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age blacks were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.


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if you ask me… I feel blacks shouldn’t be allowed to vote anywhere in the world….
Either in Africa, USA, Europe, Asia

We know how to create a problem where there is none…
I’m using Nigeria as a case study

onez:
Those Yoruba ronu don't deserve to vote. They are extreme tribalist and one of the problems of modern Nigeria.

What's all these unnecessary thing please ? Can you just stop this unnecessary troval nonsense for once ?

There is no difference between what was done in uS in 1965 and what happened in Lagos during election?.

The heading should be

Blacks could not vote in the US until 1965

1965 wasn't so long ago

Obinwenite:
There is no difference between what was done in uS in 1965 and what happened in Lagos during election?.

Ode.

Blacks were not the only ones refused to vote .

You had to pass an IQ test before you could vote and many southern Hicks were also barred from voting after failing it.

Even women, no matter their standing in society were barred from voting and for good reason as women vote without their brains.


The reason Diaper Joe is in office surrounded by Tiny hat tribesmen is because Niggers with the iQ and responsibility of a randy goat plus women with their heads up in the sky voted for him .

Joey4321:
1965 wasn't so long ago

But it feels like another era.


With the liberalisation of voting, Americans voted for sodomy and child diddling.

Not everyone in society should hold such responsibility.

Obinwenite:
There is no difference between what was done in uS in 1965 and what happened in Lagos during election?.

Aboki took a trailer ride back to their northern enclave to do their civic duty.

Why did you not return to your Goshen to vote instead of remaining in Lagos to vote Shinedu?

AntiZikist:



But it feels like another epoch.


With the liberalisation of voting, Americans voted for sodomy and child diddling.

Not everyone in society should hold such responsibility.

Fundamentals should be changed, not freedom.

Kseeker:


What's all these unnecessary thing please ? Can you just stop this unnecessary troval nonsense for once ?

What's funny is that Igbo slaves were taken to America in large number. About 60% of African Americans today have some traits of Igbo blood.

AntiZikist:


Ode.

Blacks were not the only ones refused to vote .

You had to pass an IQ test before you could vote and many southern Hicks were also barred from voting after failing it.

Even women, no matter their standing in society were barred from voting and for good reason as women vote without their brains.


The reason Diaper Joe is in office surrounded by Tiny hat tribesmen is because Niggers with the iQ and responsibility of a randy goat plus women with their heads up in the sky voted for him .

If only we could stop the illiterate north from voting.

Some blacks could vote but they had to be educated enough. The problem in Nigeria is we allow the illiterate north that can't think vote monsters on the instructions of their imams

In my honest opinion, blacks cannot rule themselves.

Thundafireseun:
if you ask me… I feel blacks shouldn’t be allowed to vote anywhere in the world….
Either in Africa, USA, Europe, Asia

We know how to create a problem where there is none…
I’m using Nigeria as a case study

Inferiority complex is a sign of degenerative mental illness.

Joey4321:


Fundamentals should be changed, not freedom.

Don't understand what you wrote .

But even the Greeks who invented and practiced Democracy never gave everyone the right to vote .


Women
Children
Slaves
Criminals
Vagabonds
Aliens


Should not have the right to vote

America did not barr blacks from voting as this useless OP is trying to insinuate but rather had a literacy test that must be passed before one could be allowed to vote .


If blacks did not vote until 1965, how come there were elected Black Senators and Reps almost immediately after the civil war ?

AntiZikist:


Ode.

Blacks were not the only ones refused to vote .

You had to pass an IQ test before you could vote and many southern Hicks were also barred from voting after failing it.

Even women, no matter their standing in society were barred from voting and for good reason as women vote without their brains.


The reason Diaper Joe is in office surrounded by Tiny hat tribesmen is because Niggers with the iQ and responsibility of a randy goat plus women with their heads up in the sky voted for him .

.is this not Tinubu's profile you just analyzed?

ZitaMall:


If only we could stop the illiterate north from voting.

Some blacks could vote but they had to be educated enough. The problem in Nigeria is we allow the illiterate north that can't think vote monsters on the instructions of their imams

The Okoro yeast is far worse as they are dangerously half educated and are a hostile people to Nigeria.

AntiZikist:


The Okoro yeast is far worse as they are dangerously half educated and are a hostile people to Nigeria.

On the contrary they are the ones that refuse money to vote. Unlike other regions. Stop the tribalism.

ZitaMall:


On the contrary they are the ones that refuse money to vote. Unlike other regions. Stop the tribalism.

Have you heard of voter inducement in the north ?


That's only a SW thing.

You can see northern politics in play at the highest level of debate as their senators and reps only key into discussions that promote their region.

Is that the case of the eve ready for hire Ibo senators who only take on issues that they have been financially induced to support or oppose.


Leave the north . The problem with our democracy lies in the south.

Thundafireseun:
if you ask me… I feel blacks shouldn’t be allowed to vote anywhere in the world….
Either in Africa, USA, Europe, Asia

We know how to create a problem where there is none…
I’m using Nigeria as a case study

Speak for yourself and family alone

Votes don't count in Nigeria

And in 2023, Igbos can't vote in Lagos State. Registering for a Voters Card is still a herculean task for non-indigenes in highly overcharged urban centres and neighbourhoods.

MadamExcellency:
And in 2023, Igbos can't vote in Lagos State. Registering for a Voters Card is still a herculean task for non-indigenes in highly overcharged urban centres and neighbourhoods.

Is anyone registering to vote in your yeast ?

Go back to your yeast and leave other regions to its people.

AntiZikist:



Don't understand what you wrote .

But even the Greeks who invented and practiced Democracy never gave everyone the right to vote .


Women
Children
Slaves
Criminals
Vagabonds
Aliens


Should not have the right to vote

America did not barr blacks from voting as this useless OP is trying to insinuate but rather had a literacy test that must be passed before one could be allowed to vote .


If blacks did not vote until 1965, how come there were elected Black Senators and Reps almost immediately after the civil war ?

I never knew this.

Thank you for sharing this.

It seems like the black people (just like the igbos) need to let go of the victim mentality.

AntiZikist:


Have you heard of voter inducement in the north ?

Are you sure about this?

Joey4321:


I never knew this.

Thank you for sharing this.

It seems like the black people (just like the igbos) need to let go of the victim mentality.

Black Americans are descended from Ibo slaves .

Cassandraloius:
In my honest opinion, blacks cannot rule themselves.

this statement says it all... Colonialism should have continued

AntiZikist:



Black Americans are descended from Ibo slaves .

Lol. I'm Igbo

Joey4321:


Lol. I'm Igbo

That's a fact.


Vast majority of slaves transported to America were Ibo


All female slaves transported were Ibo.

70% of present day niggers have Ibo blood and it is obvious from their penchant for senseless violence and their criminal bent.

Cooletempa:


Inferiority complex is a sign of degenerative mental illness.

Clown


Becos he said the truth.

Cassandraloius:
In my honest opinion, blacks cannot rule themselves.

200% true.