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Essay On Voter Suppression In Texas

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Voter suppression in Texas started in the early twentieth century women were not allowed to vote they were expected to marry and be homemakers. This all came to a head the Texas woman suffrage association participated in the struggle to impeach governor James Ferguson in 1917. This helped the suffragists gain legislative approval of female voting in 1918 democratic primary. A year later in 1919 voters rejected the amendment to the Texas constitution that would have give all women the right to vote in the general elections”. Then in June 1919 “a special session of the legislature ratified the national women’s suffrage amendment”. Now move forward several years to 1920 segregation is heavily imposed throughout Texas blacks had been separated …show more content…

Now move forward to 1960 the progressive voters league started informing black people about political issues and they also encouraged blacks to vote. Go forward five years to 1965 the federal voting rights act is adopted in Texas which eliminated all local restrictions on voting and required federal marshals to monitor the election proceedings. This history of voter suppression is what played a major role in making the tactics that politician use today and what makes Texas suppression tactics the toughest among the other states. It also shows how far Texas voter suppression tactics go back in history and how racial discrimination was the main cause behind the suppression of other races from voting. Even today people say that voter id laws and voter suppression is way to discrimatory. This should be fixed because if people look at the history and what happened like when they created the white primaries. There will be riots and violence all through out the United States and history will just repeat itself. Texas and many other southern states have a reputation of being discrimatory toward people who are not

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