The 1960’s is marked as the “Era of Civil Right Movement”, but it was much more than that. It was the Era where race became a person’s face value. You could be intelligent and respectable, you were outcasted because of darker skin. As explained by dsfsdf, Blacks were viewed in the 1960s as horrible people, if someone saw a black person on TV or walking around their first impression would be what 's he or she doing here or there.” Despite how hard many African Americans worked to demolish such an image, social media fought them at every turn, creating an image of aggression through propaganda-like commercials, and the like. Although, they were also very helpful in helped show how passionate people were, through airing speeches such as “I Have
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You vote for how you want your society to look like, to function. All the way back in 1869, The 15th Amendment was passed, stating that all native-born American men, including African-Americans, had the right to vote. Even still, Black people in the South did not truly have this right. They had to jump through countless hoops to cast their votes, which often times weren’t even taken into account. To be able to vote, you had to pass a test or answer a few questions, proving your knowledge. While this all sounds well and good, it was used to discriminate against African Americans. There was a enormous disparity between the tests. When a white person would be asked to a question, a blacks would be asked to write an essay. When a white person would have to know who the president was, a black would have to know the names of every person in the government. This infuriated the people, as unfairness always does. Overall, the road to the Voting Rights Bill, passed on May 26, 1965. The act banned literacy tests, and instilled the government as proctors of the polls in places where less than 50 percent of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote, and allowed the U.S. attorney general access to see what poll taxes went to. The fight to equality was well on its
You vote for how you want your society to look like, to function. All the way back in 1869, The 15th Amendment was passed, stating that all native-born American men, including African-Americans, had the right to vote. Even still, Black people in the South did not truly have this right. They had to jump through countless hoops to cast their votes, which often times weren’t even taken into account. To be able to vote, you had to pass a test or answer a few questions, proving your knowledge. While this all sounds well and good, it was used to discriminate against African Americans. There was a enormous disparity between the tests. When a white person would be asked to a question, a blacks would be asked to write an essay. When a white person would have to know who the president was, a black would have to know the names of every person in the government. This infuriated the people, as unfairness always does. Overall, the road to the Voting Rights Bill, passed on May 26, 1965. The act banned literacy tests, and instilled the government as proctors of the polls in places where less than 50 percent of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote, and allowed the U.S. attorney general access to see what poll taxes went to. The fight to equality was well on its