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    The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles...
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    original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021. "Voting Rights Act". National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Retrieved May 23, 2014. One or more...
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    National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights...
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  • This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised...
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    marches. "National Voting Rights Museum and Institute". Selma, Alabama. Hartford, Bruce. "Selma, Lord, Selma: The Voting Rights Campaign". Civil Rights Movement...
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    Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Selma, Alabama Voting Rights History Two Centuries of Struggle ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive "Voting Rights", Aclu.org...
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  • and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) is a United States federal law dealing with elections and voting rights for United States citizens residing...
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    Selma to Montgomery marches, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968, marked significant...
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    Civil Rights National Monument List of museums focused on African Americans Mississippi Civil Rights Museum National Civil Rights Museum National Voting Rights...
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    of the civil rights movement Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries Timeline of women's rights (other than voting) Timeline of...
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    The U.S. Congress enacted major amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each of these amendments coincided with...
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    complaints from individuals on the difficulties in voting registration and denial of voting rights. Required of the commission were periodic reports to...
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    Montgomery to press for voting rights. This activism generated national attention for social justice. That summer, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed...
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    of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment, and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The legislation was proposed by President...
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  • The voting rights of Indigenous Australians became an issue from the mid-19th century, when responsible government was being granted to Britain's Australian...
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    Many people have cast votes during spaceflight. Voting from space has some inherent difficulties, as delivering paper ballots to and from a space station—as...
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  • before 1926 40 states had non-citizens voting in elections. While federal law does not prohibit noncitizens from voting in state or local elections, no state...
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    to establish additional provisions. Aside from addressing voting rights, the Civil Rights Act of 1960 also imposed criminal penalties for obstruction...
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    The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history...
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  • Joanne Bland (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    former director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama. Bland was a highly active participant in the Civil Rights Movement from her earliest...
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    Ramsey Clark (redirect from VoteToImpeach)
    civil rights, and dedication to enforcing United States antitrust laws. Clark supervised the drafting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act...
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    White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)...
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    the voter registration efforts during the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, and became nationally known during his prominent role in the Selma to Montgomery...
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    Diane Nash (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    the Alabama Voting Rights Project and working on the Selma Voting Rights Movement. This helped gain Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
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  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial...
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  • Project, which will later develop as the Selma Voting Rights Movement. All year – The Alabama Voting Rights Project continues organizing led by James Bevel...
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    the National Women's Rights Convention of 1851, the issue of women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the United States women's rights movement...
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    also prohibited. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, similar to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibited racial discrimination in voting. The Act was later expanded...
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    Little Rock Nine (category Civil rights movement)
    District and is now a National Historic Site that houses a Civil Rights Museum, administered in partnership with the National Park Service, to commemorate...
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    Ruby Bridges (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only...
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