How far was peaceful protest responsible for the successes of the civil rights movement in the years 1955 - 1964?…
An African-American teenager boy named Emmett Till decided to visit his family in Money, Mississippi. One day Emmett, his cousins, and friend were outside of a country store. He told his friend and cousins that he walk his white girlfriend home back in Chicago. His companions didn’t believe him, so they made him go to ask the white cashier for a date. Emmett went inside the store to buy a candy. At the way at the door Emmett told the white cashier “bye baby” then he left the store. The white cashier’s husband Bryant and her brother Milan went to see Emmett’s great uncle “Mose Wright” in the morning. After a few hour the two white men beat Emmett nearly to the death. They pulled out his eyes, and shot him. They…
voting writes. When it came time to pass the voting rights act, in 1965, there were…
Up until 1832 the right to vote had split the country. Only male members of the aristocracy, and land or property owners had the right to vote, making up 3% of the population. By 1867 voting rights were extended to those men who rented property rather than owning it dramatically increasing the size of the electorate. The middle classes were on a mission as they entered the political arena coming with demands of civil and religious liberties. The rising middle class saw themselves as pioneers for change, and believed in a society based of merit and nor on birthright.…
Before the 1960’s, Independent voters attracted no attention. They were few in number, and had little significance in any election. All of that has changed beginning around the Vietnam era to recent Presidential elections. Voters were never were equal to begin with really. Everyone only gets one vote, but politicians, campaign and media will focus their attention on particular voters while ignoring others. In recent elections, the emphasis is revolved around Independent “swing voters”. As the country become equally divided and heavily polarized, it makes sense to concentrate on a segment of voters that are believed to determine the contemporary Presidential elections. In the 2004 election, less than forty percent of voters identified strongly…
The period 1945 to 1964 was where African Americans campaigned for their civil rights, and they aimed to improve the lives of black people, to some extent the federal government was involved in the improvement of the stays of black people including the presidents, the congress, the supreme courts and the FBI. However it was not the federal government alone who improved the status of black people because civil right campaigns such as the NAACP.…
In 1965, The Voting Rights of 1965 Act was signed by Lyndon B Johnson. The Act was built to examine the state and local barriers that were interfering with the Africans Americans rights to vote. There were decades of harassment and discriminatory ways that people tried to stop African Americans from voting. When the people of the Equal Rights movement tended to march from Alabama to Washington D.C. they were intruded by state troops with tear gas and whips after they refused to turn back. This led to Lyndon B. Johnson to want to pas the Law that would officially settle it all. This act banned Literary tests, and other means that tried to interfere with the act of voting. Lyndon B Johnson also signed the Act with Martin Luther King Jr. During…
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had 19 separate sections. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 protected the rights of voters in the United States. No voting qualifications to voters shall be imposed. It outlawed poll tax. American citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on race or color. The United States Attorney General was given the authority to appoint federal examiners to audit states, voting policies and practices if they felt there was a violation.…
The 1960s saw unrest, antiwar dissents, and a social revolution. African American youth challenged taking after triumphs in the courts in regards to social liberties with road dissents driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and additionally the NAACP. Dr. King skillfully utilized the media to record examples of ruthlessness against peaceful African American dissidents to pull at the still, small voice of people in general. Activism took on effective political change when there were large gatherings that resulted in the mistreatment of the protestors. African Americans or women's activists or gay people, who felt the bite of appalling political strategies, and decided to direct long-range crusades of coming together to focus their challenge with the media.…
Before the 1960s, racial discrimination in many areas of American life was legal. One could be excluded from restaurants, hotels, theaters, even stores, or turned down for employment, on the basis of his race. Many states also had ways of preventing black citizens from voting, managed to keep their schools segregated for years.…
Sharon Salzberg once said, “Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.” This is relevant to today because voting is overlooked and taken for granted. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided equal rights to all people and enabled all races the equality they deserve. This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.…
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted by Congress to address the high amount of racial discrimination in voting. It was an evil which had been perpetuated in many different parts of the United States through unremitting defiance of the Constitution. In Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act, it contains the coverage formula that helps determine which states and local governments are subject to the pre-clearance under Section 5 of the Act. Section 5 of the Act contains the pre-clearance requirement that requires certain states and local governments to obtain a determination by the United States Attorney General, that changes made to their voting laws don’t deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a…
By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had proved almost entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained national attention, along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally, the unprovoked attack on March 7, 1965, by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, en route to the state capitol in Montgomery, persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators' resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting rights law and hearings began soon thereafter on the bill that would become the Voting Rights Act.…
It was during this time of political upheaval that members of the various Asian ethnic groups decided to band together and act politically. Thus, the Asian American Movement was born. The Asian American Movement along with the implementation of the 1965 Immigration Act helped the Asian Community overcome the historical and political barriers to civic participation. During the period of Asian American Movement, several acts were passed and adopted that prohibited discrimination against minorities. the Immigration Act of October 3, 1965 abolished the national quote system, removing discriminatory restrictions on Asian Immigration to the United States. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act prohibited discrimination in voting, education, employment, and public facilities and gave the federal government the power to enforce desegregation by denying federal funds to segregated schools and programs. Thus, as the voices and concerns of Asian Americans were being more and more articulated during the movement, legislation changed and provided for more active political participation from the growing minority. The changes in law have changed the composition of the nation’s immigration population, yet it has also started to break down the barriers to political participation for Asian…
“The Civil Rights Movement, (1954-1968) was a social movement in the United States, during which activists attempted to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.” according to the article, The Sit-In Movement. African Americans had a set of strategies used to fight for equality. Peaceful protests, the sit-in movement, freedom rides, along with speeches resulted in the success of the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation.…