Should African Americans Have The Right To Vote

If a person could not vote for anything in the U.S, because they are African American, then why should they not fight for what they believe in? In 1965 African Americans could not vote for who they wanted in the White House or who they wanted as their governor. When African Americans started to do marches, and get their word out about how they felt. The town's police were to be sent out, and if the marchers would not leave, then they would be attacked by the police with their nightsticks. Even though southern whites did not like the idea of giving African Americans the right to vote; the government gave african americans the right to vote, because it will lead to a more happy country, it will give African Americans more freedom, and it will give more fair responses on who should be the governor or the president. …show more content…
African Americans were doing a march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. They ran into the police three times, and were told to disperse. The first time they were attacked by the police and a guy died protecting his grandmother and grandfather from the police. The second time they did not leave and were attacked again, and the third time they stopped before the police prayed and turned around and headed back to Selma. When they got back that evening a white minister was attacked by several other white people and died two days after the attack, because the minister was helping the march. On the final march they were allowed to march to Montgomery, because the president and the judge order the police to allow the marchers to march to