Sentences with phrase «securing black voting»

Since 1909, the NAACP has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles in the United States, from ending lynchings to securing Black voting rights and ending school segregation.

Not exact matches

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

Secondly, King began to feel that immediate and most important issue confronting the Blacks was to secure the right to vote and he started planning action.

Selma sidesteps this problem by focusing on one chapter in Martin Luther King's life: his struggle in the town of Selma to secure black people's voting rights.

Once black voting rights were secured and segregation ended the civil rights movement went into sharp decline.

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It details strategies used to secure the vote, recognizes outstanding black leaders, and documents the contributions of black sports figures, soldiers, artists, actors, writers, and others in the fight against segregation and discrimination.

«She committed to an artistic career shortly after women had finally secured the right to vote; when almost half the black women in the workforce were domestics and the other half were performing the dirtiest or most difficult jobs; and when a black woman artist was considered a curiosity.»