Civil Rights - Class 3

3. How has suffrage expanded for different demographic groups in American history?

1. Summarize: Voting Rights
• What are the key amendments we should know?
• 15th Amendment (1870)
• 17th Amendment (1913)
• 19th Amendment (1920)
• 23th Amendment (1961)
• 24th Amendment (1964)
• 26th Amendment (1971)
2. 3-2-1 Blog Post: Same Sex Marriage
• What did we learn about strategy behind the civil rights movement for same-sex marriage?
• The Marriage Plot (Atlantic)
• What did the Supreme Court rule?
• Timeline (Oyez)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry (Oyez)
• U.S. v. Windsor (Oyez)
• Impact (New Yorker)