Browse Items · America Votes: 1607-2012

Letter to the Committee on the Judiciary Regarding Suffrage for 18-Year Olds

Tags: 18 year old vote, Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Letter from George Neu Opposed to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

As a concerned citizen, George Neu wrote to the House Judiciary Committee to express his belief that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional.

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Form Letter from E. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone Asking Friends to Send Petitions for Woman Suffrage to Their Representatives in Congress

Petition of Mrs. Amelia Bloomer for Relief from Taxation or Political Disabilities

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Tags: suffrage, taxation, women's suffrage

Petition from Carrie Chapman Catt of the National American Woman Suffrage Association asking that a Committee on Woman Suffrage be appointed in the House of Representatives as in the Senate

Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in Favor of Voting Rights

Mrs. E. Jackson wrote to the House Judiciary Committee the day after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. She was reacting to scenes of police brutality during a voting rights march that many Americans witnessed on television news programs. The…

Tags: suffrage