Who gained the right to vote first: women, or African Americans?
Technically African American men gained the right before women but in much of the south from the time the 15th ammendment was passed in 1870 until almost a century later in 1965 when the voting rights act was signed into law by President Johnson blacks were discouraged from voting. Methods from imposing poll taxes that most of the blacks couldn’t afford and imposing literacy tests that most blacks seemed to fail not because they were stupid because many uneducated illiterate whites passed these tests with ease but because the people administering the tests were racists who wanted to prevent the blacks from voting at all costs, to violence against blacks seeking to excercise their right to vote was the norm through much of the south.
