Voting Rights Movement

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Race has been a major line of the American society since the colony’s century playing a powerful role in the political system throughout United States government. The term race has changed over and over throughout history. The term race has changed over and over throughout history. African-Americans history of separating people based on race created a clear view of how most racial minorities ' have treated throughout history and view and differences amount racial majority. This paper most important focus will be the experience racial minority faced throughout this historical revolution. African-Americans are not the only racial minority who being treated or racial bad mistreatment, Chinese American and Native American but African-American illustrates …show more content…

Because of this, you are correct, but whether black were free or slaves at this point of history, black rights or views were still being excluded from a system or country where leaders are chosen votes. The Fifteenth Amendment was passed giving African-American the right to vote even then there were still racial, discriminating toward black one of the reasons why the voting right act was passed in 1965, creating an umbrella for minority group who wanted the vote by taken away reading and writing ability test in some of the southern states. As the US Constitution stated in Amendment XV, "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or earlier condition of servitude”(563). This quotation basically declares that all people who lawfully live in a country, state, etc. living in the United States have the right to vote, no one will be denied for any reason, yet voting, treating people unfairly based on their skin color is still in the present. After African-American gained the right vote in 1870, woman around this time-frame were treated unequally. A woman 's role was to take care of their household, wash, cook and clean, it wasn 't until the nineteenth century, when women were recognized as a product of a community of people, and woman right to vote includes …show more content…

Racial inequality within the school facilities has always been a major problem since 1800s, Plessy v. Ferguson was the first case to display this type of inequality within the school system, resulting the separation of facilities for education, having black and white attend a different school hoping to get the same education which in most cases it unlikely to happen. As senators Barack Obama stated, " Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven 't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today 's black and white students”(Obama,2008). As a result, there is now a big gap between black and white students in the board of education, affecting community of people money based/cheaply, the brown case was a very unforgettable part of black history. “A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to give for one 's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened” (Obama, 2008). This quote is basically saying as a result of this separating people by race, religion, etc., many blacks living in inner-city community fight for a high rate of student dropping out of high school due to pregnancy and drug state of being dependent on the drug which is still present. This case leads into another case, in 1955,

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