The Voter Id's: The Civil Rights Movement
All forms of life have rights, whether you agree or not. In terms of the Human Race, this has varied throughout time. Especially for people of color. These disputes continued even after slavery was put to an end. It continued on in a movement known as the Civil Rights movement. A movement that is still yet very live today. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1956 and lasted for about a year. There was an injunction from the local courts prohibiting the segregation of busses in Montgomery, starting the era of the Civil Rights Protests. Shortly after the boycott King started the Southern Leadership Conference which advocated for nonviolent civil disobedience. Those in SLC used demonstrations
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Although screenings were taken away to stop the prohibiting of African Americans from voting, the barriers are still very there. Things such as the new complication of having voter Id’s is having a major impact on what voter turnout may be for the African American community this election. The problem with the id’s is that now certain id’s no longer qualify as a voters id, and many now want you to have the correct photo id. Tis may be hard for African American communities because either many cannot afford it, or they do not have a place that is close enough for them to go get one. Some may not even know where to get a proper photo id without having any …show more content…
This Act banned segregation on so many levels. Even with this Act in place, I still believe that places are still segragted based on race. If you noticed, many suburban neighborhood are mostly white, and that’s ther way of segregatin g thing s because ifthei’r farther out in nicer communities, their children won’t have to go to school with black kids and can grow up living tis superior white life. This is done by those who make it harder for black to get a mortgage, therefore keeping them out of these better neighborhood. Or even if they were to get into these neighborhoods, they would be scrutinized in all that they do. Some of these including but not limited to, maybe raising their mortgage payments, making it harder for them to put their children into better schools, or even just their neighbors treating them like outsiders on a
Although screenings were taken away to stop the prohibiting of African Americans from voting, the barriers are still very there. Things such as the new complication of having voter Id’s is having a major impact on what voter turnout may be for the African American community this election. The problem with the id’s is that now certain id’s no longer qualify as a voters id, and many now want you to have the correct photo id. Tis may be hard for African American communities because either many cannot afford it, or they do not have a place that is close enough for them to go get one. Some may not even know where to get a proper photo id without having any …show more content…
This Act banned segregation on so many levels. Even with this Act in place, I still believe that places are still segragted based on race. If you noticed, many suburban neighborhood are mostly white, and that’s ther way of segregatin g thing s because ifthei’r farther out in nicer communities, their children won’t have to go to school with black kids and can grow up living tis superior white life. This is done by those who make it harder for black to get a mortgage, therefore keeping them out of these better neighborhood. Or even if they were to get into these neighborhoods, they would be scrutinized in all that they do. Some of these including but not limited to, maybe raising their mortgage payments, making it harder for them to put their children into better schools, or even just their neighbors treating them like outsiders on a