Key Amendments
This amendment states that you can't be denied the right to vote based on race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This major 1965 law banned things like literacy tests, which were used to stop Black citizens from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In 1961, Georgia Tech was the first major university in the Deep South to do this peacefully, without a court order.
What is desegregate (or integrate)?
In 1943, Georgia became the very first state to lower the voting age to this number.
What is 18?
Voters of Tomorrow is an organization led by and for people in this generation.
What is Gen Z?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is a fee that people once had to pay in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This basketball arena at GT has been used as a major early voting and Election Day polling location for Fulton County.
What is McCamish Pavilion?
This famous civil rights leader and Congressman, who represented Atlanta for decades, passed away in 2020.
Who is John Lewis?
The main goal of Voters of Tomorrow is to get young people to engage in this activity.
What is politics or voting?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This type of "test" was used to stop people from voting by forcing them to prove they could read and write.
What is a literacy test?
In 1956, Tech students famously rioted and burned a model of this person, the Governor of Georgia, who tried to stop the football team from playing in the integrated Sugar Bowl.
Who is Governor Marvin Griffin?
This was an old, illegal system in Georgia that gave rural counties more voting power than city counties.
What is the county unit system?
Voters of Tomorrow was founded in this year by a high school student.
What is 2019?
This amendment made it illegal to charge a poll tax to vote in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This is the common name for the 1993 law that lets you register to vote at the DMV.
What is the "Motor Voter Act"?
This student organization at Georgia Tech shares a name with a national organization and works to register and mobilize Gen Z voters.
What is Voters of Tomorrow?
This Georgia-based organization, founded by Stacey Abrams, focuses on registering voters and fighting voter suppression.
What is Fair Fight Action?
This is the name of the legislative platform created by Voters of Tomorrow based on polling young people.
What is the Gen Z Agenda?
The 19th Amendment is also known as the "Susan B. _____" Amendment.
What is Anthony?
This 2013 Supreme Court case weakened the Voting Rights Act by removing the rule that some states needed federal approval to change voting laws.
What is Shelby County v. Holder?
Georgia Tech is known for its lack of this kind of activism, especially during the 1960s, as students were "too busy to protest."
What are Vietnam War protests?
This 1963 Supreme Court case, which started in Georgia, established the "one person, one vote" rule.
What is Gray v. Sanders?
Voters of Tomorrow was one of the first national groups to endorse this man, the first Gen Z member elected to Congress.
Who is Maxwell Frost?