Reviewed on 7/16/2016 Fabrizia A. The Hay-Adams was the perfect venue for our DC wedding. From the beginning, Erin (our hotel contact) was incredibly responsive to our emails and patient with us as we made decisions. The hotel staff was really top notch and so attentive to my family's needs throughout the... Read More weekend.
See also. 1  Ballot access. 2  Black suffrage. 3  Forty acres and a mule. 4  Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920, women's right to vote) 5  Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1971, uniform voting age of 18 or older) 6  Voting rights in the United States. 7  United States labor law.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution abolished slavery and the 14th made African-Americans U.S. citizens. With the 15th Amendment, voting rights could not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.. In theory, all African-American men now had the right to vote.In reality, the fight for voting rights for African-Americans had really just begun.xpanding and Ensuring Voting Rights. The 19th Amendment gave voting rights to women, including African-American women, in 1920. In 1964, the 24th Amendment outlawed poll taxes, removing another major barrier to African-American voting.