Law – Pol 313
S2024
Professor Diane Peress
Week #8B: Assignment : Voting Rights I
The power to vote is the power to change. The interference with the voting rights of people of color occurs at one or more of three stages:
Voter registration
Voting on Election Day
(eg poll tax)
Diminishing the impact of the vote (eg redistricting)
READ:
RLAS
Chapter 5 on “Voting Rights and Restrictions” pp.177-194
Note: Except for Baker v Carr, you do not need to know any of the Court cases in this reading, just the different ways in which voting rights were limited to minority groups (eg primaries, grandfather clauses, poll taxes) UF pp. 111-113 mid; 161-162 mid
KNOW: suffrage
disenfranchisement
poll tax
grandfather clause
primary felony disenfranchisement
one man, one vote
gerrymandering-redistricting
What is the 15
th
Amendment and why was it passed? What is the 26
th
Amendment and why was it passed?
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: due Thursday March 14 at 6pm
Give very brief
answers 1.
Describe 2 ways that African Americans were disenfranchised? (UF, RLAS)
2.
Describe 1 way that Mexicans were disenfranchised? (UF)
