The Right To Vote Is Never Safe Summary
After reading the article “The Right to Vote is Never Safe” by Jon Grinspan, published on November 4th, 2017 there are several things that can be said. To begin with, this article is based on everything that took place not so long ago, that people have failed to realize how important it is today. Grinspan practically spoke on all that happened and that took place in order for black men and poor white men to finally vote. Grinspan also mentions the old Protestant elites and how they sought to hold voting from immigrants while rising urban machines sought to harness their votes. At first poor whites thought they had it bad because of obstacles that had to go through in order to get their vote in, but it was the colored men that had it worst.
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It was about right after the Civil War who not all yet some had the chance to vote under the 15th amendment and by the federal legislation. Unfortunately that happened to change, due to the white redeemer governments that took over the southern states. Making it extremely hard for others such as black men and poor white men to be able to vote. Suppressing the black men to vote was very high on their to-do-list. There are and will always be information that has never made it out for the public to hear, yet in the article Grinspan mentions a few. Grinspan goes into detail on how things took place. Starting from the beginning, many freed black men were to vote only in confederate states. Which is why there was a big issue to begin with. There were laws, rules and regulations passed on trying to stop them. Such as the poll tax, property owning, the grandfather clause, literacy test and much more. In the article, Grinspan goes into detail on how black men were treated and how brutal violence came to be because of this. Grinspan states that, “The year after those first votes, in Louisiana alone 1,081 people, mostly black, were killed during political conflicts, according to a congressional study. By the end of the century a tide of revised state constitutions, enforced with shotguns and bullwhips, made voting by blacks all but
It was about right after the Civil War who not all yet some had the chance to vote under the 15th amendment and by the federal legislation. Unfortunately that happened to change, due to the white redeemer governments that took over the southern states. Making it extremely hard for others such as black men and poor white men to be able to vote. Suppressing the black men to vote was very high on their to-do-list. There are and will always be information that has never made it out for the public to hear, yet in the article Grinspan mentions a few. Grinspan goes into detail on how things took place. Starting from the beginning, many freed black men were to vote only in confederate states. Which is why there was a big issue to begin with. There were laws, rules and regulations passed on trying to stop them. Such as the poll tax, property owning, the grandfather clause, literacy test and much more. In the article, Grinspan goes into detail on how black men were treated and how brutal violence came to be because of this. Grinspan states that, “The year after those first votes, in Louisiana alone 1,081 people, mostly black, were killed during political conflicts, according to a congressional study. By the end of the century a tide of revised state constitutions, enforced with shotguns and bullwhips, made voting by blacks all but