Voting Rights Movement

This chapter is all about elections and voting rights. Voting has always been a hard subject to talk about if you were African American or a woman. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was signed which stated that women had the right to vote nationally. Before that, in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was passed that outlawed denying people the right to vote on the grounds of there “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (Turner 251). Years later in 1964, the Twenty-fourth Amendment was approved. It forbids the use of poll taxes during federal elections. This has been applied to state elections since 1966. The third element of the Jim Crow laws was the literacy test. In order for someone to vote they had to prove they were able to read. African Americans …show more content…
The media campaigns form three principals. One-way politicians advertise themselves is by using political advertisements. Paid television commercials are a great way for candidates to begin advertising. They also use the more traditional form of campaigning. They give speeches, rallies, and news conferences to draw media attention (Turner 264). The last way to advertise via media is to get free television time. They do this by be part of new broadcasts as well as interviews. Most candidates hire a media consultant in order to help them use media as a way to advertise. A media consultant advises the candidate on the use of mass media. The Federal Election Campaign Act was put in place in order to keep the candidates honest about where they are receiving campaign money. The author writes, “candidates spent over $1 billion in the 2008 election cycle”. This act makes the candidates complete a file which accounts for where they are getting all of their campaign money and how they spent it. The government places laws in order to keep the campaign contributions equal. In 1979, an amendment was created that included a loophole for the government to spend