A Choice That Can Make A Difference

Having the right to vote is a part of America’s Constitution. Never the less, African Americans did not always have that opportunity to vote. In the past, African Americans had to face many challenges that prevented them to vote. Although presently, many people do not know of

The NAACP, established in 1909, decided to contest the law. At first, it successfully closed loopholes in southern disfranchisement that had permitted some poor, illiterate whites to vote. But its most important early success was the Supreme Court's 1944 decision prohibiting the white primary. The Court ruled that Texas had made the party primary part of the public electoral process; therefore the white-only primary violated black rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.
Despite that victory, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the manipulation of election laws by local registrars effectively excluded the vast majority of black adults. The struggle for southern enfranchisement (a major goal of the civil rights...