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A Timeline of U.S. Anti-War Movements
Anti-war movements date back to the birth of the United States.
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Anti-war movements date back to the birth of the United States.
The history of anti-war protests in the United States is as old as the country itself. Every war in American history even the one that spawned the country generated internal dissent from pacifists who rejected all wars and from citizens who objected to specific military conflicts on moral, religious, political and economic grounds. The following is a brief timeline of anti-war movements dating back to the birth of the republic.
How Jim Crow-Era Laws Suppressed the African American Vote for Generations
In the wake of the passage of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that restricted Black Americans access to voting.
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In the wake of the passage of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that restricted Black Americans access to voting.
Following the ratification in 1870 of the 15
th Amendment, which barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race, southern states began enacting measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, all-white primaries, felony disenfranchisement laws, grandfather clauses, fraud and intimidation to keep African Americans from the polls.
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