Protest groups and the Black press fought employment discrimination and political exclusion
Answer:
Minor v. Happersett (1874)
Explanation:
This court case was presented on appeal by Virginia Minor, a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, after being denied registration to vote in St. Louis in 1872. She sued Reese Happersett because he was the voting registrar.
The case was not successful at the time, as the Supreme Court ruled that women´s right to vote was not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which showed the court was not the place to fight for voting rights for women.
The following actions were centered on the review of state voting laws and the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution. It wouldn´t be until 1920 that Minor v. Happersett was overruled by the Nineteenth Amendment that prohibited discrimination in voting rights based on sex.
Between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient roman republic lasting from 494 BC to 287 BC , in which the plebeians sought political equality with the patricians
