How Did African Americans Win The Civil Rights Movement

1 In 1964, Many minorities in America were free, but still oppressed and treated differently because of the skin they were born in. Civil leaders all over came together to organize strikes, boycotts, and marches. Minorities and police officers were at odds because some Americans didn't see anything wrong with not allowing minorities to have the same rights as others. The goal was to bring attention to the civil issues. One of the key issues that African Americans faced was voting. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that voting was vital in America, so he wrote the president. President Johnson stood before the people and urged Congress to pass the voting rights bill. That bill changed the course of history by allowing blacks the right to freely vote, and shifting political parties from having all the power.
The hoops that African American men and women had to jump through to vote were over. African American faced literacy test, the grandfather clause, and poll taxes. Many blacks weren't so lucky to learn the skills necessary to read and wrote. Knowing this, political leaders in southern states gave out literacy test to blacks. Although thousands of black Americans were eligible to vote, thousands failed the literacy test and couldn't vote. If you managed to pass the literacy test, then they had the grandfather clause. This clause stated that if your grandfather voted then you could vote. There were hundreds of blacks who grandfathers were slaves and therefore couldn't vote. If that wasn't enough, they set up poll taxes. This was a free that had to be paid to register to vote. Some African Americans couldn't afford to pay this tax, so they couldn't