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Alabama

Voting Rights History

 * 1819: Universal white male suffrage
 * 1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race
 * (only for Southern states)YEAR: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote
 * 1920: Women are given the right to vote
 * 1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote