What order was the right to vote granted,Blacks vs Women?

Question

Who had the right to vote first?

Answer 1

In USA African Americans first Women second.

In all actuality Woman’s suffrage was a much easier battle (although it was a hard fight for Feminism too); once it was won however there was no question about women voting.

For African Americans voting rights were taxed and rules were made about voters level of education and cases were taken to the Supreme Court for years after as a race they were granted the right to vote.

Historically speaking African Americans were allowed to vote long before Women, but since history has proved other wise, the question may be easier to ask than to answer

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Answer 2

African Americans were given the right to vote in the year 1870 by the 15th Ammendment of the Constitution.

Fifty years later, in 1920, women were granted suffrage by the 19th Ammendment.

Answer 3

Legally, African-American men had the right first, technically after the Civil War.

However, it was not widely exercised or accepted until the 1960s (Jim Crow laws, etc.). Women got the right in the 1920s, but still didn't use it much till, again, the 1960s.

Answer 4

In the US, blacks:

1870. Non-white men

1920. Women

1964. Poor

Answer 5

women recieved the right second , I believe.

Answer 6

women

Answer 7

Blacks were given the right to vote before women but Jim Crow laws as well as other scare tactics kept many blacks from voting until the 60s when they were abolished.

Answer 8

black MEN were given the right to vote before any woman was.

Answer 9

African Americans were granted the right to vote before females were.

Answer 10

Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1870 to protect Blacks’ voting rights. It prohibited the national and state governments from refusing citizens the right to vote because of their race, color, or because they were a slave at one time. After the Fifteenth Amendment was passed, a large number of Blacks voted during the late 1860’s through the 1880’s. The African-Americans used their voting rights to gain political power and to protect their rights. Soon, southern states started passing laws to make it harder for Blacks to vote. Some states passed laws that required people to pay a poll tax before voting. Others required people to pass a reading or writing test before voting. Since most Blacks had been slaves their whole lives, they had little money to pay a poll tax and did not know how to read or write. Some people were still trying to take away the civil rights of African Americans.

Although many were against the amendments, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. The amendments declared that Blacks were real people and should be treated as equals and not as property. The amendments also gave Blacks the right to vote, making it possible to change things.

During debates on the Reconstruction Amendments which extended the vote to ex-slaves (through the 15th Amendment), suffragists pushed hard for "universal suffrage," but they never had a chance.  

Nineteenth Amendment (Women's Right to vote)

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919.

Ratified August 18, 1920.

Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of s*x.

Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Answer 11

The Africian American males were given the vote shortly after the Civil War. However, in certain states it was still very difficult for them to exercise these rights. Woman, both black and white, were not given the vote for several years later.