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                                                                                  Photo Credit Images: Pixabay 1776~Voting was controlled by individual state legislatures. Only white men, age 21 and older who owned land could vote. 1920~The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified giving women the right to vote nationwide.  1923~The poll taxes were used in many states as a way to discriminate against certain voters. 1924~The Indian Citizenship Act Grant’s Native Americans Citizenship and voting rights. 1964~The Federal Civil Rights Act was passed to ensure that all men and women age 21 and older regardless of race, religion, or education have the right to vote. The 24th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified eliminating the poll tax nationwide.  Today about 4 million people are registered to vote in Washington, roughly 68% of those are eligible to vote. According to an article written in the National Geographic on July 24, 2020, the right to vote and who may exer

Drapetomania What is drapetomania, it is a term that was originated and hypothesized in 1851 by a man named Samuel Cartwright who was a medical doctor that practiced medicine in the South? He came up with this racial theory when an African slave would runaway, Cartwright considered that the slaves had a disease, a mental illness when one wanted to flee. Think about this because an African slave wanted to escape from being beaten, dehumanize, raped, and who wanted to escape captivity. They were literally diagnosed.   Below is some interesting information about Drapetomania: Southern doctors used pseudo-science to explain why slaves tried to escape while ignoring the fact that maybe they just didn't like being slaves. It’s easy to forget that up until very recently, slavery was a normal and accepted way of life. Since the beginning of recorded history, some humans have enslaved others, and people accepted it as the way of the world. It is boggling to the modern Western mind to think