Pros And Cons For Civil Rights

Voter Exclusion

The Civil Rights we have now we take for granted. The rights we all have now to vote was different before July 2, 1964. We all did not have the same rights there was mass segregation meaning if you were not white you cannot do all the same things as everybody else. Even though the Blacks had rights by law. Regulations very by state to state. They made a hard for Blacks to use their rights American black could not vote without paying a poll tax. There was a poll tax in most of the states so that the Blacks cannot afford to use their rights. So in a sense they did not have the right to vote.

President John F. Kennedy had a vision of equal rights for everyone along with Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X were the main supporters Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X are two different styles are going about trying to achieve that but Kennedy wanted to pass into law everyone had equal rights. When Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassins on November’s 22nd 1963 his vision for equal rights died with him vice president Lyndon B. Johnson took over as president and wanted to continue his

The bill was placed directly on the Senate calendar instead of being sentit to committee. Southern opponents of the bill led a filibuster, a time-delaying tactic used by a minority in an effort to prevent a vote on a bill or amendment that probably would pass if voted on directly, for sixty days. This cloture motion, the only formal procedure that provides for breaking a filibuster, passed the Senate 71 to 29 on June 10, 1964. The Senate filibuster was overcome through the floor leadership of Senator Hubert Humphrey, the considerable support of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the efforts of Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who convinced Republicans to support the bill after some amendments were agreed to. (U.S. Senate