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1868. Citizenship is guaranteed to all male persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights. November 3: The right of African American men to vote in Iowa is approved through a voter referendum.
The Fifteenth Amendment ( Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, [ 1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments .
I; Flag Protection Act. United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case that by a 5–4 decision invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as a violation of free speech under the First Amendment. [ 1] It was argued together with the case United States v. Haggerty.
The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America. It is part of Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code ( 4 U.S.C. § 5 et seq ). Although this is a U.S. federal law, [ 1] the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like "should" and "custom ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. [ 7][ 8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. [ 7]
Texas v. Johnson. Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech .
An Act to prohibit desecration of the flag and for other purposes. United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990) in which the act ( 18 U.S.C. § 700) was struck down by the Supreme Court on June 11, 1990. Reacting to protests during the Vietnam War era, the United States 90th Congress enacted Public Law 90-381 (82 Stat. 291), later codified as ...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, c. 1880. Douglass stood up to speak in favour of women's right to vote. Susan B. Anthony, 1870. Victoria Woodhull portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1870. Senator Aaron Sargent introduced the first federal amendment to grant women the right to vote. 1789: The Constitution of the United States grants the states the power to set ...