As African Americans In The 1900s Where Affected By The Passing Of The 13th 14th 15th Amendment Which Freed The Slaves And Gave Anyone The Right To A Us Citizen If Born In The Us And The 15th Gave Blacks The Right To Vote

As African Americans in the 1900s where affected by the passing of the 13th 14th 15th amendment which freed the slaves and gave anyone the right to a us citizen if born in the us and the 15th gave blacks the right to vote. So they began moving to cities, racialism between the white and black residents tensed up again. With the creation of the Jim Crow laws and the poll tax and literacy test to be able to vote. These basic funamedels still became a change but the fight for social privileges was also renewed in the form of the NAACP Movement. This group focused on encouraging black pride and political and social equality. Even though it would still be a very long time before they were treated as equals. The African Americans in the late 1960s, who only knew potential of equal protection of the laws, expected the president, to fulfill the promise of the 14th Amendment. With most of the racism coming from the south and Midwest blacks held sit ins pray ins and freedom rides in Birmingham, Alabama most of which was being captured on television so civil right leaders like Martian Luther king pressed John F. Kennedy to do something because they knew that legislation backed by the government could guarantee full citizenship for them. Kennedy went on national Television and declared civil rights a moral issue saying race has no place in in American he passed a bill to stop segregation in public facilities and if they did not they would not get funding from the government. Then there was the March on Washington which had a quarter million people fifty thousand of with where white this is where Martin Luther King gave his famous I have a dream speech. Then London Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964 it banned racial discrimination and segregation in public accommodations it helped integrate schools and equal employment commission to enforce a ban on job discrimination. The Voting Rights act which invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the blacks the