Essay On The Voting Rights Act

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Bianca Valencia Barraza
Mr. Florio
Government
October 30, 2015 The Voting Act of 1965 The years following the 1960’s was a significant time period, during this time many individuals especially the African Americans led difficult lives because of violence and the inequality they had to deal with each day. The African American public which included men, women, and children suffered greatly due to to the oppression that they had to endure. Before the year of 1965, African Americans had to withstand the Jim Crow laws and other forms of laws and practices which would segregate them with the “white population” and make them more prone to violence than they already were in. The president of this time, however, then passed the Voting Rights …show more content…

One of the many acts which affected the African Americans included the Jim Crow Laws that was enacted in 1874 to 1975 mostly throughout the south of the United States. These laws in theory was to create the “separate but equal” environment but only resulted in assaults, lynching, beatings and other types of equitable violence which was directed towards the African Americans with hatred and disgust that the whites had towards them. As stated in the article named, The Jim Crow laws consisted of the following examples which were passed all throughout the south, prohibited and stated illegal and void interracial marriage between a any black person and a white person, hospitalization according to the Board of Control must include and provide distinct rooms for all black and white persons, no corporation or person can require of a female white nurse either private or public to be of service or nurse a black male and was a method of showing the “minorities,” or in other words the African Americans who was in social control. By having these laws Whites were to be seen as the supreme race and be seen as the ones with most power because of their

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