Home X D2L Launch Module Five: Analyzing H x M Southern New Hampshire Univer X Google Translate X + V X - C D 29] calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?share=erika.blount@gmail.com&ctok=YWx6YS5hZDkwQGdtYWIsLmNvbQ&pli=1 Paused mySNHU Login Sophia : Welcome IS Workouts For Wom.. Google Translate YouTube ) Maps M My gmail * one walmart RINGY f (15) Facebook Job Search | Indeed > > Other bookmarks HIS 200: Applied History Q The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Previous Next King: "Give Us the Ballot" [A]ll types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters. The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition. And so our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us Content Navigation the right to vote. [Audience:] (Yes) Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write the law on the statute books of the South (All right) and bring an end to the dastardly acts of the hooded perpetrators of violence. Give us the ballot (Give us the ballot), and we will transform the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs (Yeah) into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens. Give us the ballot (Give us the ballot), and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill (All right now) and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a "Southern Manifesto" because of their devotion to the manifesto of justice. (Tell 'em about it) Give us the ballot (Yeah), and we will place judges on the benches of the South who will do justly and love mercy (Yeah), and we will place at the head of the southern states governors who will, who have felt not only the tang of the human, 68F G ENG ~ () D 11:30 PM Cloudy 10/3/2022a Home x i LaunchModuleFive Analyzing x M SeulheinNewiiampshlre Univ x E; GoogleTransiate x i + v 7 a X ( C O Ecalendargoogiecom/caiendar/u/O/r?share:erikabiountgmaii.(om&ctok:YWXEYSShZDkaGthWierthbQStpli:i I. I} e >aused I] mySNHULogin Sophia::Wei(ome a WorkoutsForWom,., a EoogieTransiate II YouTube " Maps M Mygmaii onewaiman (g: RINGV 0 (15]Farebopk "I Job Seaich[indeed Otherhookinarks HIS 200: Applied History .r The Voting Rights Act or 1965 Johnson "Our Duty Must Be Clear" Every device ofwhich human ingenuity is capable has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong, or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. And if he persists, and if he manages to present himself to the registrar, he may be disqualified because he did not spell out his middle name or because he abbreViated a word on the application. And if he manages to fill out an application he is given a test. The registrar is the sole judge of whether he passes this test. He may be asked to recite the entire Constitution, or explain the most complex provisions of State law. And even a college degree cannot be used to prove that he can read and write. For the fact is that the only way to pass these barriers is to show a white skin. Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination. No law that we now have on the books and l have helped to put three ofthem therecan ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it. In such a case our duty must be clear to all of us. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. We have all sworn an oath before God to support and to defend that Constitution. We must now act in obedience to that oath. 'i'l'3'i PM a "' '1' '9 10/3/2022 Home X D2L Launch Module Five: Analyzing H x M Southern New Hampshire Univer X Google Translate X + V X - C D 29] calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?share=erika.blount@gmail.com&ctok=YWx6YS5hZDkwQGdtYWIsLmNvbQ&pli=1 Paused mySNHU Login Sophia : Welcome IS Workouts For Wom.. Google Translate YouTube ) Maps M My gmail * one walmart RINGY f (15) Facebook Job Search | Indeed > > Other bookmarks HIS 200: Applied History Q= The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Previous Next The Voting Rights Act of 1965 From the beginning, supporters and opponents of African- American civil rights both understood the critical importance QUALIFUGAZHUN . of voting rights. Supporters strove, after the Civil War, to THE BLAK MAN ORTER BE EDDIKA HE KIN VOTE ensure that freed slaves would have the political power that US WITES. MR. SOLID SOU comes with voting; toward that end, they passed the Fifteenth Content Navigation Amendment, to guarantee voting rights, and the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871, to combat the Ku Klux Klan's efforts to suppress black voting through intimidation and violence. But federal enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment effectively ceased with the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Opponents knew that allowing African Americans to vote would threaten the structure of white supremacy on which the Jim Crow South was founded. In addition to physical intimidation, then, Southern whites erected an imposing set of legal obstacles to deter blacks from voting: poll taxes, whites- only primaries, literacy tests, property qualifications, and grandfather clauses. An 1879 cartoon criticized the use In 1957, Rev. 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