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"Alabama
Application
for
Registration,
Questionnaire
and
Oaths."
N.d.
Digital
file.
The
biggest
obstacle
to
voting
in
the
South
was,
arguably,
literacy
tests
that
were
stacked
against
the
applicant
that
weren't
abolished
until
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
is
a
voter
registration
application
many
African-Americans
used
when
trying
to
register
to
vote
in
the
1960s.
This
document
included
annotations
by
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
Veterans
website
that
explained
how
the
tests
were
often
biased
against
African-Americans.
This
document
helped
me
understand
the
need
for
an
effective
and
all-encompassing
piece
of
legislation
that
mandated
voter
registration
in
the
Southern
United
States
to
allow
African-Americans
to
register
to
vote
without
obstructions.
"Alabama
Literacy
Test."
N.d.
Digital
file.
Literacy
tests
were
often
specially
designed
to
only
allow
the
applicant
to
fail
rather
than
succeed;
often,
whites
registering
to
vote
were
not
required
to
take
the
tests,
whereas
African-Americans
were.
This
is
a
literacy
test
from
the
state
of
Alabama
many
African-Americans
would
be
required
to
pass
prior
to
registering
to
vote.
This
test
helped
me
understand
how
voter
suppression
was
carried
out
in
the
South.
"Barbara
Jordan
at
the
1976
Democratic
National
Convention."
Video
file,
0:46.
Youtube.
Posted
by
American
Civil
Liberties
Union
Videos,
February
8,
2013.
Accessed
January
27,
2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914687&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=vQi-
fb3jBTw.
The
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
was
integral
in
allowing
more
African-Americans
to
enter
America's
political
scene.
Barbara
Jordan
was
one
of
the
first
African-American
politicians
elected
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
is
a
portion
of
her
keynote
address
at
the
Democratic
National
Convention
of
1976.
This
video
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
the
presence,
or
lack
thereof,
of
African-Americans
in
national
politics.
"Birmingham
Voter
Registration
Project."
N.d.
Digital
file.
Throughout
the
Southern
United
States
where
African-Americans
were
denied
the
right
to
vote,
many
voter
registration
campaigns
were
held
to
reverse
the
disenfranchisement
of
African-Americans.
This
is
a
pamphlet
sent
out
by
its
namesake,
the
Birmingham
Voter
Registration
Project,
to
encourage,
inform,
and
educate
potential
voters
and
activists
in
and
around
the
Birmingham
area.
It
provided
insightful
statistics
detailing
the
current
state
of
the
registration
of
African-American
voters
at
the
time
(1966).
This
immediate
response
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
puts
the
effect
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
had
on
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
into
perspective.
Hill 2
Boca
Raton
News
(Boca
Raton,
FL).
"Negro
Registration
Doubled
since
1965."
July
28,
1970.
Immediately
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
in
1965,
African-Americans
began
registering
to
vote
unobstructed.
This
is
a
Florida
newspaper
article
detailing
the
forecasts
for
African-American
voter
registration
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
article
also
shows
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
has
affected
African-American
voting
patterns
and
registration
already.
This
article
showed
me
the
immediate
effects
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
had
on
voter
registration.
Civil
Rights
Act,
C.F.R.
(1964).
The
Civil
Rights
Act
of
1964
was
the
second
of
the
three
landmark
pieces
of
legislation,
the
24th
Amendment,
the
Civil
Rights
Act
of
1964,
and
the
Voting
Rights
Act,
that
opened
the
door
to
undeterred
suffrage
for
African-American
citizens.
The
Civil
Rights
Act
of
1964
required
rules
regarding
voting
to
be
equally
applied
to
all
races.
This
act
helped
me
see
what
led
up
to
the
Selma
to
Montgomery
Marches
and
the
subsequent
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
Civil
Rights
Act
of
1875,
S.
1,
43d
Cong.,
1st
Sess.
(1873).
In
the
late
1800s,
America
experiences
a
dramatic
shift
following
the
Reconstruction
Era
which
reverses
all
progress
made
through
post
Civil
War
legislation.
A
bill
calling
for
the
banning
of
public
discrimination
based
on
race
is
introduced
by
Charles
Sumner
on
December
1,
1873;
this
bill,
although
passed,
is
repealed
only
four
years
later,
symbolizing
the
dramatic
shift
in
the
nation
away
from
civil
rights
and
equality
for
African-Americans.
This
is
Charles
Sumner's
bill.
This
bill
helped
me
understand
how
the
country
went
form
a
form
of
proposition
of
civil
rights,
during
Reconstruction,
to
segregation
and
Jim
Crow
laws.
"Crusade
for
Citizenship."
N.d.
Digital
file.
During
the
nadir
of
American
race
relations,
African-Americans
were
heavily
disenfranchised
and
stripped
of
their
rights
as
American
citizens,
including
their
right
to
vote.
This
is
an
informational
pamphlet
sent
out
by
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
to
educate
the
African-American
public
of
the
realities
of
the
suppression
of
African-American
voters;
this
report
included
several
statistics
that
detailed
the
statistical
injustices
in
the
current
voting
system.
In
Mississippi,
less
than
2%
of
African-
Americans
in
the
state
were
registered
voters.
This
helped
me
see
the
conditions
of
voter
suppression
previous
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
Daily
National
Republican
(Washington
DC,
DC).
"The
Fifteenth
Amendment."
March
31,
1870.
The
passage
of
the
Fifteenth
Amendment
was
the
last
of
the
Reconstruction
Amendments,
loosely
and
ineffectively
granting
the
right
to
vote
to
all
American
citizens,
supposedly
including
newly
freed
African
slaves.
This
is
a
newspaper
article
detailing
the
passage
of
the
Fifteenth
Amendment.
This
article
shows
a
public
opinion
and
view
on
the
Fifteenth
Amendment
at
the
time.
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Fifteenth
Amendment
was
originally
planned
to
aid
the
nation's
African-
American
population.
Hill 3
Hill 4
"JFK
on
Civil
Rights."
Video
file,
1:35.
Youtube.
Posted
by
JFK
Library,
July
27,
2007.
Accessed
February
2,
2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWX_pjyIq-g.
Due
to
pressure
from
outside
nations
during
the
Cold
war,
president
John
Kennedy
began
advocating
for
civil
rights.
This
is
a
clip
from
one
of
his
speeches
in
which
he
details
his
promotion
of
civil
rights
and
equality
for
African-Americans.
This
clip
helped
me
understand
how
the
Cold
War
affected
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
Johnson,
Lyndon
B.
"Excerpt:
LBJ's
Voting
Rights
Speech
'The
American
Promise.'"
Speech
presented
at
Congress,
Washington
DC,
DC,
March
15,
1965.
Video
file,
5:28.
Youtube.
Posted
by
The
Lyndon
B.
Johnson
Library,
December
7,
2011.
Accessed
January
26,
2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914687&x-yt-
cl=84503534&v=VNjlwwf2K9g.
In
the
1960s,
African-Americans
across
the
nation
were
calling
for
an
end
to
racial
injustices
being
carried
out
everyday
by
law
enforcement
and
the
politics
they
did
not
have
a
say
in.
This
is
an
excerpt
from
a
speech
by
the
president
at
the
time
of
the
Selma
voter
registration
campaign,
Lyndon
B.
Johnson,
regarding
voting
rights
during
the
time
of
the
activism
being
carried
out
by
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
in
Alabama.
This
excerpt
includes
Johnson's
call
to
Congress
to
pass
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
video
showed
me
how
the
effects
of
the
marches
at
Selma
rippled
through
the
nation
all
the
way
up
to
the
White
House.
King,
Martin
Luther,
Jr.
"Bloody
Sunday."
Speech.
Bloody
Sunday
was
arguably
the
most
influential
event
of
the
campaign
to
register
voters
in
Dallas
County,
Alabama,
due
to
the
widespread
media
coverage
of
the
police's
brutality
against
the
peaceful
protestors
and
the
subsequent
call
to
action
across
the
United
States.
This
is
one
of
Dr.
Martin
Luther
King's
many
influential
speeches
regarding
the
plight
for
African-American
suffrage;
this
speech
addresses
the
horrors
of
the
first
attempt
to
march
from
Selma
to
Montgomery.
This
speech
helped
me
understand
how
brutal
the
attacks
by
police
on
the
protesters
were;
I
also
saw
how
unyielding
the
protestors
were
in
their
efforts
to
demonstrate
against
systematic
voter
suppression
against
African-Americans
in
the
southern
states.
.
"Fumbling
on
the
New
Frontier."
The
Nation
(New
York
City,
NY),
March
3,
1962.
The
beginning
of
the
1960s
in
America
saw
the
beginnings
of
a
solid
and
powerful
movement
calling
for
the
granting
of
civil
rights
for
African-American
citizens.This
is
a
newspaper
written
by
the
leader
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference,
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.,
detailing
the
current
issues
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
in
1962.
This
helped
me
understand
the
perspective
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
from
those
at
the
forefront
of
the
nationwide
movement.
Hill 5
Hill 6
Hill 7
NBC.
"1965:
Voting
Rights
Act
Signed."
Video
file,
1:55.
NBC
News.
Accessed
April
3,
2015.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/8645974#8645974.
Broadcast
to
televisions
nationwide,
President
Lyndon
Johnson
signed
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
freeing
African-Americans
from
practices
designed
to
restrict
them
from
registering
to
vote.
This
is
a
clip
from
a
news
broadcast
about
the
signing
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
video
helped
me
understand
how
the
message
of
the
marchers
in
Selma
rippled
throughout
the
nation
with
reverence
and
success.
New-York
Daily
Tribune
(New
York,
NY).
"Freedom
Triumphant."
February
1,
1865.
The
Thirteenth
amendment
was
the
first
of
the
three
Amendments
to
the
United
States
Constitution
known
as
the
Reconstruction
Amendments.
This
is
a
newspaper
article
commencing
the
passage
of
the
Thirteenth
Amendment
to
the
United
States
Constitution.
This
article
refers
to
the
Thirteenth
amendment
as
the
"Grandest
Act
Since
the
Declaration
of
Independence".
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Thirteenth
Amendment
provided
Constitutional
opposition
to
slavery.
North
Carolina
Voter
Education
Project,
October
1968.
Following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
the
African-American
vote
became
a
true
talking
point
in
American
politics
and
political
campaigns.
This
is
a
newsletter
sent
out
by
the
North
Carolina
Voter
Education
to
stress
the
importance
of
voter
registration
and
the
weight
the
African-American
vote
carries.
This
newsletter
stated
how
the
African-American
vote
had,
before,
been
disrespected
and
ignored,
yet
now
the
African-American
vote
is
highly
influential.
This
helped
me
see
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
major
elections
and
political
campaigns.
North
Carolina
Voter
Education
Project.
Know
Your
Voting
Rights.
Illustrated
by
Thomas
C.
Daye.
Durham,
NC:
North
Carolina
Voter
Education
Project,
n.d.
Immediately
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
many
organizations
set
out
to
register
and
educate
disenfranchised
African-Americans
on
their
newfound
voting
rights
given
to
them
by
the
landmark
piece
of
legislation.
This
booklet
served
to
educate
voters
about
their
voting
rights,
such
as
those
to
watch
the
counting
of
the
ballots
and
being
able
to
work
at
the
polls.
This
booklet
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
affected
the
rights
of
African-Americans
in
reference
to
voting.
Office
of
History
and
Preservation
Office
of
the
Clerk
of
the
U.S.
House
of
Representatives
under
the
direction
of
The
Committee
on
House
Administration
of
the
U.S.
House
of
Representatives.
Black
Americans
in
Congress
1870-2007.
Washington
DC,
DC:
US
Government
Printing
Office,
2008.
The
history
of
African-American
representation
in
the
American
Congress
has
seen
much
tumult.
This
book
provided
a
very
helpful
overview
of
African-Americans
in
Congress
since
the
end
of
the
Civil
War.
This
book
included
many
pictures
and
a
plethora
of
helpful
information
that
helped
me
understand
the
history
of
African-
Americans
in
politics.
This
book
also
helped
me
understand
how
important
the
presence
of
African-Americans
in
Congress
is
to
the
acquisition
of
equality
in
our
nation.
Hill 8
Hill 9
.
"25,000
Go
to
Alabama's
Capitol;
Wallace
Rebuffs
Petitioners;
White
Rights
Worker
Is
Slain."
New
York
Times
(New
York
City,
NY),
March
25,
1965.
The
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
goal
in
organizing
the
Selma
marches
was
to
bring
national
awareness
to
the
struggling
voter
registration
situation
in
Selma.
This
is
a
newspaper
article
from
the
New
York
Times
detailing
the
marches.
This
article
shows
me
how
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
efforts
were
successful
in
bringing
the
issue
of
voter
suppression
in
the
South
to
the
nation's
doorstep.
Hill 10
Hill 11
Student
Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee.
"Report,
September
17-20,
1963."
N.d.
Digital
file.
The
Student
Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee,
in
coordinating
with
the
Dallas
County
Voters
League,
held
voter
registration
campaigns
across
Alabama
to
help
African-
Americans
overcome
barriers
to
their
suffrage.
This
is
a
report
from
mid-September
detailing
voter
registration
efforts
in
Birmingham,
Alabama.
This
report
includes
commentary
on
white
voting
drives
to
provide
an
interesting
juxtaposition
between
the
African-American
voter
registration
efforts
and
the
white
voter
registration
efforts.
This
report
helpedme
understand
the
effectiveness
of
the
barriers
that
prevented
African-
Americans
from
voting.
.
"SNCC:
Reports
from
Selma."
N.d.
Digital
file.
Throughout
the
Southern
United
States,
many
organizations
set
out
to
register
disenfranchised
African-American
voters
and
to
help
them
overcome
the
restricting
boundaries
of
voter
suppression
that
were
prevalent
across
the
South.
This
is
a
report
sent
out
by
the
Student
Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee
in
1962
detailing
their
efforts
to
register
voters
in
Dallas
County,
Alabama.
This
report
helped
me
understand
how
potential
African-American
voters
experienced
unfair
challenges
such
as
literacy
tests,
incompetent
poll
workers,
and
unfair
conditions
at
polling
stations.
Talese,
Gay.
"The
Walk
through
Selma."
New
York
Times
(New
York
City,
NY),
March
9,
1965.
Because
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
had
a
influential
legacy
previous
to
the
Selma
Campaign,
their
efforts
immediately
broadcast
through
the
United
States
media.
This
article
details
the
first
attempts
at
marching
in
Selma.
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
helped
the
Selma
Campaign
reach
Americans'
doorsteps
almost
immediately.
Tennessee
State
Government.
"Jim
Crow
and
Disfranchisement
of
Southern
Blacks."
African-
American
Legislators
in
19th
Century
Tennessee.
Accessed
April
3,
2015.
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/exhibits/blackhistory/jimcrow.htm.
Follow
the
end
of
the
Reconstruction
Era,
African-Americans
experienced
extraordinary
amounts
of
segregation
and
suppression
across
the
South.
This
is
an
article
detailing
the
post-Reconstruction
Era
and
how
African-Americans
were
oppressed
during
the
time.
This
helped
me
understand
how
African-Americans
were
disenfranchised
previous
to
being
granted
their
right
to
vote
unobstructed.
"The
Text
of
Judge's
Order
Banning
Alabama
March."
N.d.
Digital
file.
Following
the
atrocities
at
Bloody
Sunday
on
March
7th,
a
second
attempt
at
marching
from
Selma
to
Montgomery
was
inhibited
by
an
injunction
issued
by
federal
judge
Frank
Johnson.
This
file
is
the
text
of
the
injunction
issued
by
Judge
Johnson
that
created
the
second
attempt
at
marching's
nickname:
Turnaround
Tuesday.
This
injunction
helped
me
understand
how
the
Selma
Marches
faced
many
challenges,
yet
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
still
managed
to
succeed
in
their
plans
for
the
city
of
Selma
and,
by
extension,
the
American
South.
Hill 12
United
States
Census
Bureau.
"Facts
for
Features:
*Special
Edition*
the
50th
Anniversary
of
the
I
Have
a
Dream
Speech
and
the
March
on
Washington
for
Jobs
and
Freedom."
Newsroom.
Last
modified
August
21,
2013.
Accessed
January
30,
2015.
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2013/cb13-ff22.html.
The
effects
of
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
as,
arguably,
the
most
important
victory
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement,
have
brought
freedom
to
African-
Americans.
This
page
provided
several
invaluable
charts
detailing
the
changes
in
African-
American
rights
since
the
advent
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement;
among
these
charts
were
charts
detailing
the
change
in
African-American
voter
registration
and
the
change
in
the
amount
of
African-American
elected
officials.
This
site
helped
me
understand
the
changes
in
African-American
rights
since
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
United
States
Commission
on
Civil
Rights.
Political
Participation.
Washington
DC,
DC:
United
States
Government
Printing
Office,
1968.
Immediately
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
African-Americans
immediately
took
to
the
voting
booths
to
register
their
votes
and
exercise
their
unobstructed
right
to
vote.
This
book,
written
by
the
United
States
Commission
on
Civil
Rights
in
1968,
details
information
and
statistics
of
African-American
voting
immediately
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
book
helped
me
understand
the
effect
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
and
its
effect
on
African-American
voters.
United
States
Congress
United
States
Senate.
CRS
Report
for
Congress
Prepared
for
Members
and
Committees
of
Congress
African
American
Members
of
the
United
States
Congress:
1870-2012.
By
Jennifer
E.
Manning
and
Colleen
J.
Shogan.
Washington
DC,
DC:
Congressional
Research
Service,
2012.
Ever
since
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
in
1965,
the
amount
of
African-
Americans
present
in
the
United
States
Congress
has
been
steadily
increasing.
This
report
provided
detailed
numbers
and
figures
that
showed
how
the
presence
of
African-
Americans
in
the
United
States
Congress
has
been
progressively
increasing.
This
report
showed
me
the
legacy
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
efforts
in
Selma.
U.S.
Const.
amend.
XIII.
The
Thirteenth
Amendment
to
the
United
States
was
the
first
of
three
amendments
to
the
United
States
Constitution
to
make
up
the
"Reconstruction
Amendments".
This
amendment
created
a
constitutional
reason
to
abolish
slavery
and
subsequently
freed
the
slaves.
This
amendment
helped
me
see
how
African-Americans
embarked
on
their
legal
battle
to
fully
gain
their
rights.
Hill 13
Hill 14
Hill 15
WSB-TV.
"WSB-TV
Newsfilm
Clip
of
an
Atlanta
Civil
Rights
March
Protesting
Alleged
Police
Brutality
in
Selma,
Alabama,
Atlanta,
Georgia,
1965
March
16."
Video
file,
16:00.
Civil
Rights
Digital
Library
-
University
System
of
Georgia.
Accessed
April
3,
2015.
http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?format=_video&query=id%3Augabma_wsbn_47853&_cc=1
.
Following
the
broadcast
of
police
brutality
against
protestors
in
Selma,
national
outcry
turned
into
full
on
protests
and
demonstrations
that
eventually
drove
Frank
Johnson
to
revoke
the
injunction
he
had
issued
that
barred
marchers
from
proceeding
to
Montgomery
from
Selma.
This
video
shows
one
such
protest
in
Georgia.
This
video
showed
me
how
the
Selma
marches
incited
a
nation-wide
movement
that
is
the
true
success
of
the
Selma
marches.
Hill 16
Secondary
Sources
American
Civil
Liberties
Union.
"Oppose
Voter
ID
Legislation
-
Fact
Sheet."
Defending
Targets
of
Discrimination.
Last
modified
July
21,
2011.
Accessed
April
7,
2015.
https://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet.
Voter
identification
laws
have
affected
minority
voters
in
many
states,
causing
the
provisions
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
to
affect
politics
still
today,
fifty
years
after
its
initial
passage.
This
website
details
how
the
voter
identification
laws
create
barriers
for
minority
voters.
This
website
helped
me
understand
how
the
efforts
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
in
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
continues
to
help
eliminate
racial
barriers
present
in
today's
society.
Aretha,
David.
Selma
and
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
The
Civil
Rights
Movement.
Greensboro,
NC:
Morgab
Reynolds
Publishing,
2008.
The
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
role
in
publicizing
the
campaign
to
register
African-American
voters
in
Dallas
County,
Alabama,
lead
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act,
thus
banning
the
use
of
literacy
tests.
This
book
details
the
Selma
Marches
and
how
they
affected
the
nation
as
a
whole,
primarily
through
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
book
granted
me
a
broader
overview
of
my
topic
so
I
could
see
the
precursors
and
repercussions
of
the
efforts
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
to
further
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
through
the
Selma
Marches.
Balogh,
Brian.
"1965
Voting
Rights
Act
and
African-American
Voting."
Video
file,
9:43.
University
of
Richmond.
Accessed
April
3,
2015.
http://dsl.richmond.edu/voting/balogh.html.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
had
far-reaching
effects
for
African-Americans,
so
they
could
have
a
say
in
their
future
through
their
politics.
This
video
described
the
background
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
and
how
it
affected
the
nation
and
voting
patterns.
This
video
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
American
politics
and
the
welfare
of
African-Americans.
Bernstein,
Adam.
"Ala.
Sheriff
James
Clark;
Embodied
Violent
Bigotry."
The
Washington
Post
(Washington
DC,
DC),
June
7,
2007.
Sheriff
Jim
Clark
of
Selma,
Alabama,
instigated
the
Bloody
Sunday
violence,
adding
to
a
track
record
including
using
cattle
prods
on
potential
voters
in
Dallas
County.
This
newspaper
article
chronicles
some
of
the
life
and
achievements
of
sheriff
Sames
Clark
of
Dallas
County,
the
county
in
which
the
Selma
Marches
took
place.
This
article
also
showed
how
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
voting
turnouts,
particularly
in
the
southern
United
States.
This
article
helped
me
understand
the
influence
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
Hill 17
Blumenthal,
Mark,
and
Ariel
Edwards-Levy.
"POLLSTER
UPDATE:
The
Data
behind
the
Supreme
Court's
Voting
Rights
Act
Decision."
Huffington
Pollster.
Last
modified
June
25,
2013.
Accessed
January
30,
2015.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/voting-rights-
data_n_3498835.html.
The
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
gave
strength
to
African-American
voters
that
had
been
denied
a
voice
for
so
long.
This
article
detailed
the
current
views
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
in
America;
this
article
also
provided
several
comparisons
of
voter
demographics
previous
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
and
following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
the
nation,
and
this
article
also
gave
me
interesting
insight
on
the
modern
perception
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
in
America.
Carter,
David
C.,
Ph.D.
E-mail
interview
by
the
author.
April
10,
2015.
Doctor
David
Carter
is
an
author
and
educator
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
at
Auburn
University.
Doctor
Carter
gave
me
an
in
depth
understanding
of
the
Selma
Marches
and
other
significant
events
of
that
movement
and
time
period;
Doctor
Carter
also
helped
me
understand
the
effects
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
on
the
condition
of
African-
Americans.
My
interview
with
Doctor
Carter
helped
me
create
a
solid
foundation
of
understanding
of
the
Selma
Marches
and
subsequent
events.
Chestnutt,
Charles
W.
The
Disenfranchisement
of
the
Negro.
N.p.:
n.p.,
1903.
Almost
immediately
after
the
passage
of
the
Reconstruction
Era's
pieces
of
legislation
to
grant
former
African
slaves
rights
as
American
citizens,
they
were
taken
away.
This
book
details
an
inside
look
at
the
state
of
African-Americans
during
the
height
of
the
period
of
disenfranchisement.
This
book
helped
me
understand
the
need
for
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and,
by
extension,
the
right
to
unobstructed
voting
for
African-Americans.
Chokshi,
Niraj.
"How
Felon
Voting
Policies
Restrict
the
Black
Vote."
The
Washington
Post
(Washingt
D.C.,
DC),
February
12,
2014.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
still
affects
American
politics
to
fight
the
continuing
disenfranchisement
of
African-American
voters.
This
articles
shows
how
African-
Americans
continue
to
experience
barriers
to
prevent
them
from
voting.
This
article
helped
me
understand
the
legacy
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
in
relation
to
modern
voting
barriers.
Coleman,
Kevin
J.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965:
Background
and
Overview.
N.p.:
Congressional
Research
Service,
2014.
The
main
provision
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
was
the
abolition
of
any
device
that
inhibits
the
registration
of
African-American
voters.
This
is
a
paper
written
about
both
the
precursors
and
provisions
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act;
the
paper
analyzes
and
simplifies
the
information
provided
by
the
act
and
displays
a
concise
background
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
paper
showed
me
exactly
what
the
Voting
Rights
Act
entails
and
how
it
affects
African-American
voters.
Hill 18
Dudziak,
Mary
L.
"The
Little
Rock
Crisis
and
Foreign
Affairs:
Race,
Resistance,
and
the
Image
of
American
Democracy."
Southern
California
Law
Review.
The
Cold
War
was
an
integral
catalyst
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement,
as
it
pressured
America
into
supporting
civil
rights
and
thus
strengthening
its
influence
in
its
battle
against
Communism.
This
article
showed
me
how
the
Civil
Rights
Movement,
the
Cold
War,
and
America's
image
of
Democracy
coincided
to
produce
the
majority
of
the
success
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
The
Civil
Rights
Movement
showed
the
outside
world
the
injustices
of
America,
who
had
spent
a
large
amount
of
its
influence
fighting
for
"freedom"
for
others.
This
article
helped
me
understand
the
success
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
Eilperin,
Juliet.
"Whats
Changed
for
African
Americans
since
1963,
by
the
Numbers."
Washington
Post
(Washington
DC,
DC),
August
22,
2013.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
was
essential
in
providing
African-Americans
the
strength
to
achieve
the
goals
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
by
providing
them
with
a
voice
that
carried
weight
in
American
politics.
This
article
detailed
how
African-American
life
has
changed
since
1963,
two
years
previous
to
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
One
of
the
most
significant
provisions
of
this
article
were
the
provided
figures
of
the
number
of
African-Americans
in
Congress
and
the
numbers
of
African-American
voters.
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
impacted
the
nation
politically.
Ginzberg,
Eli,
and
Alfred
S.
Eichner.
The
Troublesome
Presence:
American
Democracy
and
the
Negro.
New
York,
NY:
The
Free
Press
of
Glencoe,
1964.
The
popular
opinion
and
depictions
of
African-Americans
before
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
were
often
not
favorable,
especially
in
the
Southern
United
States.
This
book
detailed
a
history,
albeit
a
rather
biased
history,
of
African-Americans
previous
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
The
African-American
Civil
Rights
Movement
was
rooted
in
deep
foundations
including
slavery,
persecution,
and
a
complete
lack
of
a
voice.
This
book,
ending
in
1964,
concludes
with
the
current
situation
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
This
book
helped
me
understand
how
the
movement
for
the
civil
rights
of
African-Americans
has
been
a
long
and
tumultuous
road.
Handley,
Lisa.
"The
Impact
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
on
Black
Representation
in
Southern
State
Legislatures."
Legislative
Studies
Quaterly,
February
1991.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
gave
strength
to
African-Americans
to
vote
for
their
values
and
ideals,
thus
America
experienced
a
dramatic
rise
in
the
number
of
African-
American
politicians
as
a
result.
This
article
displayed
and
analyzed
the
impact
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
on
the
election
of
African-Americans
to
political
offices.
This
article
provided
many
valuable
charts
and
tables
that
visually
displayed
the
changes
the
Voting
Rights
Act
wrought
upon
the
nation.
This
article
helped
me
understand
the
importance
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
on
African-American
representation
in
the
South.
Hill 19
Hanson,
Holly.
"Dallas
County
Voters
League."
Civil
Rights
Teaching.
Accessed
April
2,
2015.
http://civilrightsteaching.org/resource/dallas-county-voters-league/.
Beginning
with
the
end
of
World
War
II,
many
African-Americans
began
fighting
for
their
rights
that
they
had
been
denied.
The
Dallas
County
Voters
League
took
root
in
Dallas
County,
Alabama,
as
a
predecessor
to
the
Student
Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee
and
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
to
attempt
to
register
voters
in
Dallas
County.
This
website
details
the
efforts
of
the
Dallas
County
Voters
League
to
register
African-American
voters,
with
little
avail.
This
website
helped
me
understand
the
situation
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
inherited
in
Selma,
Alabama.
Harris,
Matt,
Ph.D.
Interview
by
the
author.
Pueblo
West,
CO.
January
18,
2015.
Doctor
Matt
Harris
teaches
U.S.
History
I,
Historiography,
America
to
1787,
Early
America
to
1763,
and
The
New
American
Nation,
1763-1830
at
the
Colorado
State
University
-
Pueblo
campus.
Dr.
Harris
gave
me
valuable
information
on
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
as
a
whole,
including
its
origins
following
the
Civil
War,
some
adversities
the
movement
faced,
and
the
ultimate
goals
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
My
personal
interview
with
Dr.
Harris
was
crucial
in
my
understanding
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and
the
significance
of
the
Selma
to
Montgomery
Marches.
Hartford,
Bruce.
The
Selma
Voting
Rights
Struggle
and
March
to
Montgomery.
San
Francisco,
CA:
Westwind
Writers,
2014.
The
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
built
upon
an
existing
voter
registration
campaign
in
Selma,
Alabama,
a
city
with
prevalent
suppression
of
African-American
voters.
This
book
details
the
existing
campaign
prior
to
the
entrance
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
and
the
legacy
of
the
Marches.
This
book
helped
me
understand
the
legacy
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
and
the
effects
on
African-American
voter
registration
in
the
South.
"Isarithmic
History
of
the
Two-Party
Vote."
Video
file,
1:14.
YouTube.
Posted
by
David
B.
Sparks,
Ph.D.,
November
11,
2010.
Accessed
April
10,
2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k4h62jRiUcc.
Following
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
the
Southern
voting
bloc
was
dissolved
and
the
political
power
in
the
South
shifted
from
being
primarily
Democratic
to
having
a
large
following
of
both
the
Democratic
party
and
the
Republican
party.
This
video
uses
data
from
local
elections
to
show
the
shifts
in
voting
patterns
across
the
nation;
I
focused
on
the
changes
in
the
South
and
saw
the
change
from
the
early
1950s
to
the
late
1960s
from
completely
Democratic
to
almost
completely
Republican.
This
video
helped
me
understand
the
importance,
significance,
and
immediate
impacts
of
the
allowance
of
unobstructed
voting
for
African-Americans
provided
by
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
Hill 20
Jacobs,
Ben.
"Do
We
Still
Need
the
Voting
Rights
Act?"
Daily
Beast,
November
25,
2012.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
maintains
relevance
even
in
the
modern
day,
as
many
see
injustices
in
current
voting
conditions
that
affect
the
minority
vote.
This
article
explains
a
viewpoint
of
the
current
state
of
voting
rights
in
America,
addressing
issues
such
as
racial
gerrymandering.
This
article
helped
me
see
how
the
effects
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
efforts
in
publicizing
the
situation
in
Selma
carry
on
even
today.
Knafo,
Saki.
"How
the
Voting
Rights
Act
Changed
Congress
in
1
Chart."
Black
Voices.
Last
modified
August
6,
2013.
Accessed
January
30,
2015.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/voting-rights-act-
anniversary_n_3715706.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black%20Voices.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
was
indispensable
in
diversifying
the
political
scene
of
the
United
States.
This
article
is
centered
around
a
chart
that
visually
displays
the
change
in
the
representation
of
African-Americans
in
Congress
since
1965,
the
year
the
Voting
Rights
Act
was
passed.
This
chart
and
subsequent
article
helped
me
understand
exactly
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
the
African-American
demographic
in
Congress.
Logan,
Rayford
Whittington.
The
Negro
in
American
Life
and
Thought:
The
Nadir,
1877-1901.
New
York,
NY:
Dial
Press,
1954.
Race
relations
in
America
took
a
severe
dive
following
the
Reconstruction
Era
resulting
in
the
disenfranchisement
of
African-Americans.
This
book
details
the
period
of
American
race
relations
following
the
Civil
War
and
lasting
until
the
beginning
of
the
1900s
which
was
marked
by
stark
denials
of
rights
for
African-Americans.
This
period,
commonly
referred
to
as
the
"nadir"
of
American
race
relations,
brought
many
forms
of
segregation
both
in
de
facto
and
de
jure
ways.
This
book
showed
me
how
the
beginnings
of
the
denial
of
African-American
rights
became
rooted
in
American
history.
May,
Gary.
Bending
toward
Justice
-
the
Voting
Rights
Act
and
the
Transformation
of
American
Democracy.
Philadephia,
PA:
Basic
Books,
2013.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
provided
African-Americans
with
the
strength
they
had
so
long
been
denied
to
determine
their
destiny.
This
book
gave
a
very
in
depth
and
dramatic
overview
of
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
book
helped
me
understand
how
exactly
the
Voting
Rights
Act
affected
the
lives
of
African-Americans
in
the
South.
This
book
also
helped
me
realize
the
absolute
importance
of
suffrage
and
maintaining
a
resolute
and
powerful
voice
in
what
controls
you.
Mayer,
Michael,
Ph.D.
E-mail
interview
by
the
author.
April
8,
2015.
Doctor
Michael
Meyer
studies
United
States
since
1945,
History
of
American
Law,
U.S.
Civil
Rights
Movement,
and
Post-World
War
II
American
Culture
at
the
University
of
Montana.
Doctor
Meyers
elucidated
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
as
a
whole
and
how
Selma
affected
the
nation.
My
interview
with
Doctor
Meyers
helped
me
understanding
the
effects
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
on
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and
the
progression
of
the
health
and
welfare
of
African-Americans.
Hill 21
Ornstein,
Norman
J.,
Thomas
E.
Mann,
Michael
J.
Malbin,
Andrew
Rugg,
and
Raffaela
Wakeman.
Vital
Statistics
on
Congress.
Washington
DC,
DC:
Brookings
Institution,
2013.
The
diversity
of
Congressional
representatives
was
virtually
nonexistent
following
the
nadir
of
American
race
relations.
This
report
details
many
statistics
on
the
makeups
of
Congress
over
the
years,
including
graphs
and
charts
detailing
the
racial
makeup
of
members
of
Congress
of
certain
regions
over
the
years.
This
report
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
Act
shifted
the
demographics
of
members
of
Congress
from
the
South.
Pimblott,
Kerry,
Ph.D.
E-mail
interview
by
the
author.
April
7,
2015.
Doctor
Kerry
Pimblott
teachers
Intro
to
African-American
Studies,
African-American
History,
The
African
Diaspora,
Black
Freedom
Movements,
and
The
Black
West
at
the
University
of
Wyoming.
Doctor
Pimblott
helped
me
understand
the
significance
of
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference,
the
Selma
Campaign,
and
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
on
African-Americans.
My
interview
with
Doctor
Pimblott
helped
me
make
sense
and
gave
me
a
deeper
understanding
of
my
topic.
Pitts,
Michael
J.
"Alabama
Law
Review;
The
Voting
Rights
Act
and
the
Era
of
Maintenance."
N.d.
Digital
file.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
is
still
relevant
today,
as
many
challenges
exist
that
affect
the
minority
vote.
This
is
a
paper
defining
the
effects
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965,
with
a
particular
emphasis
on
how
the
law
is
enforced
and
challenged
even
today.
This
paper
gave
me
information
on
the
immediate
effects
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
including
its
impact
on
voter
registration
of
African-Americans
and
its
resulting
political
impacts
across
the
nation.
"Playfair."
Focus
Magazine:
The
Magazine
of
the
Joint
Center
for
Political
and
Economic
Studies,
May/June
2005.
Unobstructed
voting
is
a
tenant
of
freedom
in
the
United
States.
This
article,
sent
out
by
the
Joint
Center
for
Political
and
Economic
Studies,
provides
several
statistics
of
the
effects
of
the
Selma
Marches
and,
by
extension,
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
article
helped
me
understand
how
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
efforts
in
Selma
opened
up
a
completely
new
world
in
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and,
also,
the
quest
for
unobstructed
African-American
suffrage.
Plummer,
Brenda
Gayle,
Ph.D.
E-mail
interview
by
the
author.
April
13,
2015.
Doctor
Brenda
Plummer
teaches
Afro-American
History
and
History
of
U.S.
Foreign
Relations
at
the
University
of
Wisconsin
-
Madison
campus;
her
primary
areas
of
research
include
Afro-Americans
and
U.S.
Foreign
Affairs
and
Race
and
Gender
in
the
Cold
War
Era.
Doctor
Plummer
told
me
how
the
African-American
community
was
affected
by
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
Doctor
Plummer
helped
me
understand
the
health
and
welfare
of
African-Americans
both
before
and
after
the
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference's
influence
in
the
Selma
Marches.
Hill 22
Hill 23
"Timeline:
A
History
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act."
American
Civil
Liberties
Union.
Accessed
January
26,
2015.
https://www.aclu.org/timeline-history-voting-rights-act.
The
history
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
is
long
and
diverse,
beginning
with
slavery
and
continuing
to
this
day.
This
is
a
timeline
pertaining
to
the
Voting
Rights
Act,
as
well
as
several
pieces
of
background
information
and
several
important
effects.
This
timeline
helped
give
me
a
base
for
my
research
to
build
upon,
as
it
provides
a
very
important
overview
of
my
topic.
Tokaji,
Daniel
P.
"The
New
Vote
Denial:
Where
Election
Reform
Meets
the
Voting
Rights
Act."
N.d.
Digital
file.
The
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965
has
had
profound
effects
on
the
political
stage
in
America
by
adding
African-American
voters.
This
paper
details
the
effects
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
on
even
modern
elections;
it
connects
the
effects
of
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
to
modern
day
elections
and
voting
patterns.
This
paper
helped
me
understand
how
the
Voting
Rights
affected
the
nation
politically,
socially,
and
economically
by
demolishing
barriers
set
to
disenfranchise
African-American
voters
in
the
southern
United
States.
Tougaloo
College.
"The
March
to
Montgomery."
Civil
Rights
Movement
Veterans.
Accessed
January
30,
2015.
http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgmont.htm.
The
march
from
Selma
to
Montgomery
brought
national
attention
to
the
injustices
being
carried
out
against
African-Americans
seeking
the
right
to
vote
in
the
South.
This
web
page
provides
multitudes
of
photographs
taken
during
the
three
attempts
at
marching
from
Selma,
Alabama,
to
Montgomery.
This
pictures
helped
me
understand
the
true
magnitude
of
the
Selma
Marches,
and,
through
these
pictures,
I
understood
why
these
marches
were
so
influential
in
reforming
the
nation's
policies
on
the
rights
of
African-Americans
seeking
the
right
to
vote.
Tuskegee
University.
"Lynching,
Whites
and
Negroes,
1882-1968."
Tuskegee
University
Archives
Online
Repository.
Accessed
January
26,
2015.
http://192.203.127.197/archive/bitstream/handle/123456789/511/Lyching%201882%2
01968.pdf?sequence=1.
Lynchings
were
a
relatively
common
method
of
instilling
fear
in
African-Americans
and
discouraging
potential
African-American
voters.
This
is
a
table
detailing
the
rates
of
lynching
of
both
white
Americans
and
African-Americans
from
1882
until
1968.
Since
1885,
the
rate
of
lynching
of
African-Americans
has
surpassed
that
of
white
Americans.
The
apex
of
the
rate
of
lynching
of
African-Americans
coincides
with
the
nadir
of
race
relations
in
America
immediately
following
the
Civil
War.
This
chart
helped
me
see
how
race
relations
in
America
took
a
disastrous
turn
during
the
period
in
American
history
commonly
referred
to
as
the
"nadir"
of
American
race
relations.
Hill 24
United
States
Department
of
Justice
-
Civil
Rights
Division
-
Voting
Section.
"The
Effect
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act."
Introduction
To
Federal
Voting
Rights
Laws.
Accessed
January
27,
2015.
https://epic.org/privacy/voting/register/intro_c.html.
The
numbers
of
the
changing
voter
registration
demographics
immediately
followed
the
passage
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
of
1965.
This
website
provides
valuable
information
regarding
the
effects
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act
on
voter
registration.
This
website
has
several
charts
and
graphs
regarding
the
influx
in
African-American
voter
registration
immediately
following
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
This
website
helped
me
understand
how
influential
the
Voting
Rights
Act
was.
Woodward,
Comer
Vann.
The
Strange
Career
of
Jim
Crow.
New
York
City,
NY:
Oxford
University
Press,
1955.
Previous
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement,
the
condition
of
American
race
relations,
particularly
in
regard
to
African-Americans,
were
very
complex.
Heralded
Rev.
Dr.
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.,
as
"the
historical
bible
of
the
Civil
Rights
Movement",
this
book
details
the
history
of
discrimination
prevalent
in
the
United
States
previous
to
the
Civil
rights
Movement
challenging
these
ideals.
This
book
helped
me
understand
the
precursors
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and
the
need
for
an
effective
voting
rights
law.