… and racism. Dr. King spent his career as an activist fighting against these exact same evils, demonstrating the … equality for all on paper through the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, voter suppression laws have been …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Douglass understood, required action and access: in war, fighting to defend the Union; in peace, working with dignity … oneself and one’s children in quality schools and voting with real political power—none of which were available …
… people. But, as for my part, if I hear of a colored man voting the Democratic ticket, I stay as far from him as I … to him anyway. Question: Now, when you find a white man voting with the colored people, don’t you think he sold …