The Civil Rights Act And Voting Rights

The civil rights movement was a struggle that southern blacks went through to fight for equality and the same civil rights as white people. In the years 1960-1965, their lives were filled with segregation and discrimination. They had many goals to achieve, but their right to vote was the biggest of all. Southern blacks voting rights were important in this time period because it did not follow the 15th amendment which was that “the right of citizens of the United States vote shall not be denied or

discrimination by many civil right activists and movement had taken place in order to bring equality for everyone in our nation like today. Ones of many revolutionary civil right laws were the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed with the goal to end the long existing justice within the American’s voting system to exclude minorities based on their status quo and previous servitude condition before the Civil War of 1861.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law passed at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. The law eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that were used to restrict African Americans from voting. Before the law, many African Americans were deprived from their political powers in many ways. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act it is important to know how the right to vote was won by civil rights activists who participated in non violent form

have the right to vote. In many states, they could only vote if their state allowed them the privilege. The dedicated men and women fought for their right to vote in the Civil Rights Movement in the early and mid 1900s. Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act to give African Americans the rights to vote. It would have not occurred if the Civil Rights Movement had not taken place. The Nineteenth Amendment would not have occurred either if not for the Civil Rights Movement

The success and passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a direct effect caused primarily by the Selma Marches held in Alabama. This act insured the right to vote for African Americans who had been discriminated against since the 1800’s. The general importance of this act, however, is more clearly seen as one looks at the broad effects and consequences of this act. After the act was passed, America essentially became the democracy our founding fathers had created nearly two and a half centuries

U.S. census registered approximately 15 million African Americans in the U.S. and none of them were allowed to vote and barely any of them were treated equally. This caused activists for African American rights everywhere, such as Langston Hughes, to fight for a proper democracy and equal rights for all in America. In Langston Hughes’s poem from 1949 Democracy, he says that even though democracy wouldn’t come anytime soon, he still knows that it was inevitable for African Americans to have their

Luther King, civil rights activist (1929-1968). United States of America was profoundly divided both socially and racially. Moreover, minorities suffered a lot. They were not fully considered as part of the society. The insupportable conditions led them to series of movements in the 20th century known as Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took many different actions such as civil disobedience, marches, sit-in, boycotts, non-violent and violent actions. The Civil Rights movement led

The right to vote represents freedom and life. Voting is a significant right because people are voting to give people the right to make life changing decisions over their lives.  There was a time when everybody didn’t have the right to vote. The history of voting caused a lot of inequality between gender and races. Voting laws has been changed to support equality between races and also allowed citizens to use utilize their voting power. Most of the voting laws are still relevant in america today

the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Lynden Johnson decided it was time to create some legislation to prevent incidences such as this from happening in the future. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have been hailed as some of “the most far-reaching bills on civil rights in modern times” (Schmidt et. al. 2010, 98). At that time in history, they were exactly what the country

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed and passed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, whose predecessor, John F. Kennedy had introduced and promoted the act before his death. The act banned discrimination in relation(s) to and of employment and establishments of communal accommodation based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It further established a framework within the federal government in battling discrimination, increasing the directives of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights