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Please join us with Election Protection Arizona as a volunteer Poll Monitor for the 2026 Election Season! Election Protection Arizona (EPAZ) helps at all stages of voting from registration to voting at the polls on Election Day. Join us in helping voters overcome any barrier from getting the right voter ID to voting from jail!
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Voting Rights Timeline
1870
The 15th Amendment granted the right to vote to Black men, regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Over time, however, Southern states found loopholes to prevent and criminalize Black voters through “Jim Crow” laws.
1898
This landmark Supreme Court case U.S. v Wong Kim Ark enshrined “birthright citizenship,” granting all children of immigrants born in the U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.
1920
Nearly a century of activism led to the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted all women the right to vote. In reality, however, only white women enjoyed women’s suffrage, as other women faced extreme discrimination and voter suppression.
1924
The Snyder Act passed in 1924, granting Indigenous people born in the U.S., American citizenship and the right to vote.
1943
In 1943, the Magnuson Act officially repealed the racist Chinese Exclusion Act, which was the first U.S. law to specifically prevent all members of the same nationality from immigrating to the U.S. The Magnuson Act allowed for some Chinese individuals to immigrate again (albeit only 106 per the racist immigration quota), and some Chinese-born individuals living in the US. were granted their right to vote.
1946
Arizona’s Right to Work Law was passed and went into effect in 1947, leading to the weakening of unions and decreases in wages and benefits for laborers.
1952, 1965
The Immigration and Nationality Acts of 1952 and 1965 were the first acts to truly give Asian Americans full access to their citizenship and voting rights. The 1965 Act eliminated racist immigration quotas, ending nearly two centuries of exclusion and disenfranchisement.
1965
After decades of brutal and violent opposition to activism in the South, the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, effectively banning race-based voting discrimination. As a result, Black people and others excluded from voting for a century after the 15th Amendment (through literacy tests, poll taxes and more) finally had the right to vote. However, recent Supreme Court rulings threaten its existence.
2010
Arizona’s racist “Show Me Your Papers Law” SB1070 passed the State Senate in February 2010, leading to a groundswell of migrant rights activism and organizing.
2010
Arizona passed an ethnic studies ban, with Republicans arguing that ethnic studies “teach racial resentment,” leading to a slew of further bans against ethnic studies and Critical Race Theory in our state.
1870
The 15th Amendment granted the right to vote to Black men, regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Over time, however, Southern states found loopholes to prevent and criminalize Black voters through “Jim Crow” laws.
1920
Nearly a century of activism led to the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted all women the right to vote. In reality, however, only white women enjoyed women’s suffrage, as other women faced extreme discrimination and voter suppression.
1943
In 1943, the Magnuson Act officially repealed the racist Chinese Exclusion Act, which was the first U.S. law to specifically prevent all members of the same nationality from immigrating to the U.S. The Magnuson Act allowed for some Chinese individuals to immigrate again (albeit only 106 per the racist immigration quota), and some Chinese-born individuals living in the US. were granted their right to vote.
1952, 1965
The Immigration and Nationality Acts of 1952 and 1965 were the first acts to truly give Asian Americans full access to their citizenship and voting rights. The 1965 Act eliminated racist immigration quotas, ending nearly two centuries of exclusion and disenfranchisement.
2010
Arizona passed an ethnic studies ban, with Republicans arguing that ethnic studies “teach racial resentment,” leading to a slew of further bans against ethnic studies and Critical Race Theory in our state.
1898
This landmark Supreme Court case U.S. v Wong Kim Ark enshrined “birthright citizenship,” granting all children of immigrants born in the U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.
1924
The Snyder Act passed in 1924, granting Indigenous people born in the U.S., American citizenship and the right to vote.
1946
Arizona’s Right to Work Law was passed and went into effect in 1947, leading to the weakening of unions and decreases in wages and benefits for laborers.
1965
After decades of brutal and violent opposition to activism in the South, the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, effectively banning race-based voting discrimination. As a result, Black people and others excluded from voting for a century after the 15th Amendment (through literacy tests, poll taxes and more) finally had the right to vote. However, recent Supreme Court rulings threaten its existence.
2010
Arizona’s racist “Show Me Your Papers Law” SB1070 passed the State Senate in February 2010, leading to a groundswell of migrant rights activism and organizing.
