Announcements:
Good afternoon everyone!
 Exactly at this time I am sitting at graduation in my cap and gown receiving
my Masters Degree. It has to be said, that I have learned more from all of you
than I have learned in my graduate classes and I will be indebted to you
forever. I can only hope I have been able to teach you as much as you have
taught me! Thank you and I look forward to seeing you all Monday.
Notebooks will be collected today:
 Now, get up and place your notebook in the milk crate on my desk in the
back of the room. (If you wait to do it later you may forget! If you forget you
will lose points for each of your assignments!)
 I will be checking your notebooks for:
1. The work we have completed this week in class (finished)
2. The Malcolm X “Ballot or the Bullet” Homework.
Directions for this assignment
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4.
On the next page, read each question and open the link to the document.
Read the document in order to answer the question.
Answer the question in your own words.
Using quotation marks, copy and paste a quote from the document that
supports your answer.
5. Answer the “Reflection Question” at the bottom
6. Submit this on ASPEN TODAY BY MIDNIGHT. NO EXCEPTIONS PLEASE!
“Why Were only 7% of blacks in Mississippi
registered to vote in 1960?”
Part 1:
Question
What right is
guaranteed by
the Fifteenth
Amendment? What year
was it passed in?
How many black Southern
legislators were there in
1960? How does this
compare to the number of
black Southern legislators in
1872? What does this say
about the effectiveness of
the 15th Amendment vs. the
1960’s Civil Rights
Movement?
Link
Answer
Evidence:
(quotations/details of images)
The 15th Amendment was passed in
1870 and it gave everyone the right to
vote.
The right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on account of
race, color, or previous condition of
servitude
There were no black Southern legislators
in 1960. There are about 325 black
Southern legislators in 1872.
In 1872 there were about 325 black
Southern legislators that decreased
to 0 In 1900.it stayed the same for
about 73 years where it started to
increase to the point that in 1992
there were about 260 black Southern
legislators.
The grandfather clauses (1896), literacy
Louisiana passes “grandfather
clauses” to keep former slaves and
their descendants from voting. As a
result, registered black voters drops
from 44.8% in 1896 to 4.0% four
years later. Mississippi, South
Carolina, Alabama and Virginia follow
Louisiana’s lead by enacting their
own grandfather clauses.
Doc 1
Doc 2
tests(1940), poll taxes(1964), and the voter
ID law(2011)
What did States specifically
do to restrict blacks from
voting?
Doc 3
Skim through Doc 3 & then
read Doc 6: Describe the
voter registration process
for African Americans in
Mississippi in 1960. What
question on the test would
have been the hardest for
blacks to answer in the
1960’s? Why do you think?
Doc 4
Doc 6
“Why Were only 7% of blacks in Mississippi
registered to vote in 1960?”
Part 2:
Question
What efforts were made by
black and white activists to
help African Americans
register to vote? What did
they do together?
Link
Doc 6
How did some Southern
whites explain their
opposition to intervention
by the federal government
or activists aimed at
increasing black voter
registration?
Doc 7
What laws were passed to
protect voting rights? When
were they passed? Why
were they needed?
Doc 8
Answer
Evidence:
(quotations/details of images)
They whent
door to door
asking people
the vote.
“We were split up into small groups
and were bused or driven to different
neighborhoods, where we knocked on
doors and tried to convince the people
to register to vote in the next election.
The goal of the voter registration drive
was to enroll 100,000 new voters in
Alabama, Mississippi, and South
Carolina.”
They have a
constitutional right
to set a poll tax
“The states have the constitutional
right to set their own suffrage
qualifications as long as they do not
specifically eliminate any racial or
other group in the population. The poll
tax in itself is no more of a bar to
Negro voting than it is to a white
man's voting”