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Hell, some states required land ownership to vote in the USA up to the 1850s.
by bcrosby95 5y ago
Hell, some states required land ownership to vote in the USA up to the 1850s.
- jfk13 5y ago> "While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 and 19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most African Americans and some poor whites could not vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#cite_note-VRA1965-91 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#cite_note-V...