Timeline Copyright Credits

The primary sources for Timeline: Voting Rights are:

1.  Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, tolerance.org,

from Democracy Class: The History of Voting Rights (Rock the Vote and Teaching Tolerance)

https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/TT-Voting-Rights-Timeline-Handout-October-2020.pdf

2. Voting Rights Timeline, businessinsider.com

3. Timeline of voting rights in the United States. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:53, June 30, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States&oldid=1028075166

4. DOCSTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives

https://www.docsteach.org

5. ACLU Voting Rights Act: Major Dates in History

https://www.aclu.org/voting-rights-act-major-dates-history

 

Additional sources are noted within specific entries to Timeline: Voting Rights.

 

 

 

 

“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has as much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress or any President.”

— Barbara Boxer