This Google Site contains a series of primary and secondary sources about a 2017 lawsuit that alleged the lack of diversity on the city's council and school board were caused by the use of an at-large plurality voting system, an electoral strategy struck down by a number of previous court cases.

Each page consists of a contextual paragraph that provides background information for the document(s) and excerpts from one or more primary documents. Some of the documents have been edited for length. As you analyze the documents, consider both the original source and its author’s point of view. The companion Google Form contains questions about the documents.

The Documents:

Document A: 14^th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, 1868

Document B: 15^th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, 1870

Document C: Voting Rights Act of 1965

Document D: Huot v. City of Lowell, original complaint filed May 18, 2017

Document E: Charts illustrating the demographics of Lowell between 2007-2015

Document F: “City Agrees to Change Election System,” Lowell Sun, May 29, 2019

Document G: Chart depicting the difference between plurality voting and choice voting

Document H: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Rogers v. Lodge, decided July 1, 1982

Document I: United States v. City of Boston, original complaint filed July 29, 2005