critical thinking why were white southerners so threatened by blacks voting?
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Critical Thinking
Why were white Southerners so threatened by blacks voting?
One Person, One Vote
The Struggle for African-American Voting Rights
The Legacy of Jim Crow
Disenfranchisement Withholding the voteLimits on registration
Poll taxesLiteracy testsGrandfather clause
Challenges to Disenfranchisement
Organizing Registration drives Coaching
Protests Marches
Court cases
March on Washington August 28, 1963 Led by Martin Luther
King, Jr. Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
John Farmer Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) 250,000 people
March on Washington King’s “I Have a
Dream Speech”
“…I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Murder in Birmingham Sept. 15, 1963 KKK bombs 16th
Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
26 Children meeting in basement, 4 killed
March and this incident cause many to work for civil rights
Critical Thinking
Why do you think black civil rights workers did not turn to violence in response?
24th Amendment
Proposed August 29, 1962Ratified January 24, 1964Abolished Poll TaxDirectly affected
Virginia Arkansas Alabama Texas Mississippi
Freedom Summer
Summer 1964Massive black voter
registration drive in Mississippi
Young civil rights workers from all over the country Three murdered in August
1964: 6.7% registered1969: 66.5% registered
Civil Rights Act,1964
July 2, 1964Most sweeping CR
legislation since Reconstruction
Outlawed discrimination in: Voting Employment Public Services
Selma, Alabama 1965
Selma’s blacks prevented from voting by discrimination
MLK leads series of attempts to march from Selma to Birmingham, the state capitol.
King asks Gov. Wallace to protect marchers
Wallace orders police to block marchers
Bloody Sunday: March 7, 1965
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Selma lights fire under LBJAugust 6, 1965Outlawed any restrictions on voter
registrationMade registration a federal
responsibility in areas with less than 50% registered
Active response