Voting Rights
Kayla Bledsoe
Voting rights
- JFK thought non-violence demonstrations provoked violence
- JFK told African Americans to focus on the right to vote
- In 1962 CORE and SNCC founded the Voter Education
Freedom Summer
- It registered African Americans to vote
- They paid sixty more dollars for whites
- Goal was to educate African Americans on voting rights
- 3 young men were found dead in Philadelphia
- It was a successful summer
Political Organizing
- Over shadowed the freedom summer
- Presidential Election-LBJ vs. Berry Goldwater
- The MFDP elected 68 delegates to the democratic national convention in August 1964
- And MFDP leader presented her group's case
- 2 representative and 2 delegates to vote
Voting Rights Act
- 600 African Americans began a 54 mile march
- The police set up a blockade and beat the people marching
- Passed in Congress by large majority