The Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interactive History Adventure
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Michael Burgan
Michael Burgan has written more than 250 books for children and young adults. His specialty is history, with an emphasis on biography. A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in history, Burgan is also a produced playwright and the editor of The Biographer’s Craft, the newsletter for Biographers International Organization. He first started writing for children as an editor at Weekly Reader before beginning his freelance career in 1994. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Michael Burgan
ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE
YOU live in a time when minorities are fighting for their rights, including the right to vote. Several states refuse to change laws that restrict voters. What will you do in this struggle for equal rights?
In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.
Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.
YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.
CHAPTER 1
designThe Struggle to Vote
You are living during the 1960s, a time of great change in the United States. Overseas, the country is fighting a war in Vietnam. Feelings against the war lead to massive public protests. Many people are also demanding civil rights for African-Americans. Slavery ended almost 100 years ago, but many blacks still don’t receive the same legal treatment as whites.
One of the most important rights is voting. Voters choose who will lead the government. In some states voters can pass laws. But soon after slavery ended, many former slave states tried to strip black male citizens of their new voting rights, even though those rights were guaranteed in the Constitution.
pictureThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped overcome voting restrictions many blacks had faced.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, voter registration was difficult for southern blacks to complete. They often had to take literacy tests to prove they could read. Many blacks received little or no education, so they struggled to pass the tests.
Other states made people pay a poll tax before they voted. The taxes kept poor people of all backgrounds from voting. But in the South, the greatest effect was on blacks. The efforts to limit voting also affected some Mexican Americans. At times whites also used the threat of violence to keep blacks and others from voting.
After World War II more blacks became involved in the civil rights movement. Some white Americans joined this effort to achieve equality. The movement fought segregation, which separated whites and blacks in many public buildings or forced blacks to ride in the back of buses. Now, in the 1960s, the civil rights movement is also working to register black voters in southern states.
Many white political leaders in the South are resisting the efforts to register black voters. In some counties blacks outnumber whites. White officials there could lose their power if more blacks vote. And racism is still strong across America. Many whites do not accept African-Americans as their equal.
Several civil rights groups have been calling on the federal government to pass laws to protect everyone’s right to vote.
pictureWhen the Voting Rights Act was adopted, in many southern states only one-third of all African-Americans of voting age were registered to vote.
Early in 1964 the country takes an important step when it passes the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. It outlaws poll taxes in federal elections. But states can still collect taxes for state elections. And they can still require literacy tests.
The effort to guarantee everyone’s civil rights is growing. But the calls for equality have led to violence in the South. In 1961 a white mob in Alabama attacked civil rights protesters who wanted to end segregation