Grandfather clause

To a great extent, Trump’s rise to power can be attributed to numerous historical factors. These historical factors have led to demobilization of class interests in favor of voting along racial lines. In their analysis, Piven and Cloward argue that democratic rights are not evenly distributed among the population. One main area of focus in their research is the election of 1896. During this election, there was a coalition of poor farmers, white working class, and racial/ethnic minorities that…

In a slave narrative , Christine Stark, who survived a sex slavery in the United States, recounts the shocking callousness that was used to control her “ These men gang rape us. They rape us with dogs. They rape us with knives and guns…” Every human being has the right to live and experience. The liberty to experience life in how one’s conscious mind would like to. Life is a simple but also complex term, simple because it’s one word, but complex since it is open to interpretation. What does it…

truly cared in the first place. “Six southern states also adopted a ‘grandfather clause,’ exempting from the new requirements descendants of persons eligible to vote before the Civil War (when only whites, of course, could cast ballots in the South)” As soon as news broke out that blacks had to be treated fairly and equally, the whites had to find another way to prevent them from voting, which caused them to form the ‘grandfather clause’ and that disenfranchised many of the blacks’ voting…

throughout history to promote civil rights. The NAACP is still keeping pressure up on the Trayvon Martin Case. One of the earliest supreme court cases backed by the NAACP is the Guinn v. United States case of 1915. The supreme court banned the “grandfather clause” in Oklahoma Voter Registration Act of 1910 because it violated the 15th Amendment since it was discriminating against…

read this novel the reader may think that Jacob’s grandfather, Abe, must be utterly insane, but in actuality Abe has been trying to tell his whole family the unbelievably true stories from his past. The reader might also think that Jacob lives an incredibly average life, but this novel never fails to prove the reader wrong. In the beginning of this novel Jacob Portman tells the reader that in his younger years he used to idolize his grandfather, Abe Portman. Abe Portman has lived an…

The Civil Rights Museum as a whole was a very interesting/learning experience. Since this was my first time visiting the museum, I really did not know what to expect. I knew that it was where Dr. King was assassinated, however I was unaware of all the other exhibits leading up to and even after the Civil Rights movement. The staff there were very welcoming and knowledgeable about the events that took place throughout the museum. Also, the exhibits were amazing, I really enjoyed seeing the…

Taking it a whole step further, the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, was formed in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, to keep the Black vagrants off the streets. The KKK would ride around on horse back patrolling the roads while looking for Black vagrants and when they found them, it was not pretty; they would torture them by cutting off body parts and leaving them to die. During the 1868 presidential election, the Klan was very active in trying to keep the Black community from voting because their…

developing towards a better reputation than before. Although the Indian Act removed the discriminatory restrictions against Aboriginal people, the restrictions against first nation’s women stayed intact, such as through the double mother clause. The double mother clause is when an Aboriginal…

Imagine going day to day having to fight for your rights to do simple everyday things normally just because the color of your skin is not white. Well, that is exactly what happened in the 1960’s for African Americans throughout the United States. Instead of physically fighting, desegregationists (both blacks and whites), peacefully took their stand by participating in protests to trying and influence the US government and make a permanent change to our civil rights as we know them today. These…

The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments attempted to grant civil rights to African Americans following the abolition of slavery. The thirteenth amendment states that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States. The fourteenth amendment states all people born in the U.S are American citizens and provides equal protection under the law. The fifteenth amendment states that the right to vote shall not be denied due to race or color. In 1865 congress passed…