De Facto vs. De Jure: Voting – Primary Sources

Doc. 3: [SECONDARY SOURCE]: Excerpts from Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson, Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

*Doc. 3 is a secondary sources that provides a useful overview of how Native Americans were excluded from voting. Students might compare these strategies with those applied to African Americans.

Doc. 4: Tennessee Petition to Repeal the Poll Tax, 1932. Courtesy of Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.

Transcription of Doc. 4:Tennessee Petition to Repeal the Poll Tax, 1932.

Doc. 5: Receipt to Dr. Fred T. Jones for Poll Tax in 1936. Dr. Fred T. Jones Collection (BC.MSS.97.06), Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System.

Doc. 6: “Southern Democrats Refuse to Lift Ban on Race Voters,” The Chicago Defender, August 6, 1938.

Transcription of Doc. 6: “Southern Democrats Refuse to Lift Ban on Race Voters.”

Doc. 7: “Boycott of Negroes Stirs Plea for Aid,” New York Times, July 3, 1960.

Transcription of Doc. 7: “Boycott of Negroes Stirs Plea for Aid.”

Doc. 8: “Negroes Await Eviction Moves,” New York Times, January 1, 1961.

Transcription of Doc. 8: “Negroes Await Eviction Moves.”

Doc. 9: Voting Rights Act of 1965, National Archives [Transcription of excerpts].