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Mary Jackson - first black women to work for nasa

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Mary Jackson - first black women to work for nasa

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Today, Moton sounds matter-of-fact as he describes acts of intense racist violence in the months preceding the bill’s passage: “They killed Jimmie Lee Jackson,” he begins. “Nothing happened. They killed [Boston pastor] James Reeb — a white man. Nothing happened.

“They killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman,” he says. "[Congress] passed the Voting Rights Act."

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One of the first African American to vote and registered more than 4,000 citizens in North Carolina.

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https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

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https://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/race-and-voting.html

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https://lpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reconstruction-15th-amendment/reconstruction-the-15th-amendment-and-african-american-men-in-congress/

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https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/elections/voting-rights-african-americans.html

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Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white... read more

Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white suffragists and black men. This program was part of a symposium titled "Enfranchising Equality: 150 years of the 15th Amendment" hosted by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. close

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Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white... read more Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white suffragists and black men.

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https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voting-rights-act/history-voting-rights-act