Voting Rights Movement Analysis

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It limited various devices, such as literacy test, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by African Americans.” (Voting Rights) After the Civil War the 15th Amendment was signing 1870 stating that no man would be denied their right to vote based upon the color of their skin. In the 1960’s in the South non-violent voting right activist were subjected to being mistreated and abused. Legislation found ways to restrict African Americans from voting like poll tax, legation test, grandfather clause, and answering ridiculous questions. On March 7 peaceful protesters in Selma, Alabama march to the state capital in Montgomery where they met Alabama troopers and were beaten by nightsticks, tear gas and were whipped by men on horses because they refused to turn back and go home. This incident was caught on national television. On May 26, 1965 the Voting Right bill was passed in the U.S Senate. July 9, the House of Representatives passed the bill after debating over it for a month. Finally on August 6 the Voting Right act was sighed in the law by President Lyndon Johnson with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil right leading by his side at the ceremony. (History) In 2013 in the Shelby v. Holder decision the Supreme Court decided to get one the most effective protections for the right to vote by “requiring certain jurisdictions with a history of voting
The Civil Rights Movement was a social protest to end long standing political, social, economic, and legal practice of discrimination against African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. led the non-violent protest in Albany, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Washington D.C. and Salma, Alabama between 1962 through 1965. In the 1960’s students created the Student Nonviolent Coordination committee also known as SNCC, who fought the right to vote and to end discriminatory laws and practices. The Student Movement was another major social movement. The Student Movement was a group of mainly a group of whites who worked alongside civil right protesters that fought to end racism, poverty and wanted to increase students and end the Vietnam War. In 1960 the Students for Democratic Society also known as SDS was created and gained 100,000 members by 1968. In 1964 the Free Speech Movement was created by the help of the SDS in California, Berkeley. Students at Berkeley felt that they were treated like numbers and not individuals at the overcrowded campus. Other students around the nation fought by joining political campaigns forming local reform organizations. (Protest in the 1960s) One of today’s social