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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
50 years ago if you were black in the U.S. you weren't allowed to vote.
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I don't think that's accurate.
Edit: man, the answer is definitely hard to confirm. I thought JFK got a huge percentage of black votes. Weird.
Edit 2: It appears black men could vote as of 1869, but there were other restrictions such as literacy tests, gender, etc. that applied to whites and poor people but more often to black Americans. It wasnt until 1965 that all the hang ups were abolished by the Voters Rights Act (although, some could argue that other more sophisticated road blocks have been enacted as recently as 2000 and 2004).