The Voting Rights Act of 1869

Authors

Travis Crum, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow

Document Type

Blog Posting

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2020

Publication Title

Election Law Blog

Abstract

In celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment’s sesquicentennial, let’s start at the beginning and ask a deceptively complicated question: Why did Congress pass the Fifteenth Amendment instead of the Voting Rights Act of 1869?

Keywords

Voting Rights Act, Fifteenth Amendment, Reconstruction, Congressional Authority, Racial Discrimination, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Black Suffrage, Legal History

Publication Citation

Travis Crum, The Voting Rights Act of 1869, Election Law Blog (Jan. 28, 2020), https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109170

Repository Citation

Crum, Travis, "The Voting Rights Act of 1869" (2020). Scholarship@WashULaw. 760.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/760