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14th amendment
In 1868 the 14th amendment was created it was to give African Americans the right to vote back then. later they will strictly shorten down the amendment to make it hard for African Americans to not to vote easily than before. -
Jim crows law about voting
The Jim crow law was in use of the time and it made it harder for African Americans to vote at the time. They had a rule that if you didn't pass the literacy test you couldn't vote. and they can't change that rule because of the limited African Americans who could vote. -
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Brown vs Board
The case started in 1951 when Oliver Brown started the case when he tried to sign his daughter up to an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas. But near the end of the case, Chief Justice Warren said: "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”. This was because of the Plessy vs Ferguson when Plessy was when. https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-the-first-step-in-the-desegregation-of-americas-schools -
Civil right act of 1957
This act started in the southern states and made African Americans who can't pass the literacy test because they maybe couldn't go to school. and if they tried to stop an African American to vote it was a fraud but they knew they wouldn't complete the test. -
Freedom Summer
During the summer of 1964, there was a rally around about 700 white Americans attendant this rally. It was about to stop the discrimination at the voting poles where African Americans and whites would vote. -
Voting right acts of 1965
This act was to ban the literacy test to make it easier for African Americans who were struggling to vote. This also allowed attorney generals and consent states and poll taxes after allowing African Americans to vote made them unconstitutional. -
Fair house act
This was created after martin Luther king's death this was to equalize prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex. This was later passed by African Americans voter which also made it easy to vote to for them to pass this act.