Browse Items · America Votes: 1607-2012

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Radio Address on the Right to Vote

Tags: FDR, radio

VOTE REGISTRATION DRIVE WAS ONE ASPECT OF BLACK EXPO, AN ANNUAL EXHIBIT OF BLACK TALENT, EDUCATION, PRODUCTS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS HELD IN CHICAGO. THE AIM IS TO MAKE BLACKS AWARE OF THEIR HERITAGE AND CAPABILITIES, AND HELP THEM TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE

Tags: African American, Voter Registration

Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized

Tags: Absentee Voters, Japanese American

Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized

Don't Sell Your Vote

Tags: asia, poster, propaganda

Adoption of the Resolution Calling for Independence from England, 07/02/1776

This document records the July 2, 1776, vote in which the Continental Congress agreed to independence. The words of the resolution, originally proposed by Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, are echoed in the Declaration of Independence.

Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

This item consists of the resolution proposing the Fifteenth Amendment, which was ratified February 3, 1870, and grants citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The "Voteless" Flag

The District of Columbia was originally created as a territory under federal control to prevent any one state from dominating the new federal government. The argument over national representation and home rule began almost immediately after the…