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Introduction: Read the question provided and answer it.

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Do Now: What was the voting act?

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Instructions: Select one of the voting rights activists and answer the following questions.

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Instructions: Select one of the voting rights activists and answer the following questions.

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1. What was their purpose for fighting for voting rights?

2. What methods were used to help gain voting rights?

3. Were there any restrictions after gaining the right to vote?

4. Did the voting right extend to African women?

5. when did African Americans receive the right to vote?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Ida B. Wells not only protested for the right of African Americans to vote she especially fought for African American Women the right to vote. In this imagine it shows her and a suffragists protesting in order to get recognition and seen my the president in order to grant them the right to vote.

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Activist- Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson

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Activist- Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson

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Although the Voting Rights Act passed, state and local enforcement of the law was weak, and it often was ignored outright, mainly in the South and in areas where the proportion of Black people in the population was high and their vote threatened the political status quo.

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Questions:

1. What did you learn from this presentation on Voting Rights?

2. How did this packet provide you with a better understanding of the time period?

3. Do African Americans still face similar struggles in current times?

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In this photograph, taken by Yoichi R. Okamoto on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the President's Room of the Capitol building while Civil Rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. look on. The Voting Rights Act was designed to the "enforce the 15th amendment" and remove the barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

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1. Why would many from the south use this to stop African Americans from voting?

2. How many do you believe would pass this exam?

3. If one were to pass what would happen?

4. Why do you think this was still allowed to be done even though they were granted 15th Amendment?

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In his 1957 “Give Us the Ballot,” speech Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out on the disenfranchisement Black voters were facing and emphasized the gravity and impact of voting saying, “So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself.”

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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change