After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. In 1948, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a provision of its state constitution that kept Indians from voting. Other states eventually followed suit, concluding with New Mexico in 1962, the last state to enfranchise Native Americans. Native people have only had universal suffrage for 52 years. Think about that for a second.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:39:20 +0000
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