The Importance in Voting

The importance in voting

1. The form of disenfranchisement that I’ve selected is violence. I rank violence as being the worst form of disenfranchisement. So many people died from the terrible conditions of violence. 100 blacks were murdered and there was no justice for it. Certain rights to have prosecution against those who committed these crimes such has murder were never sought through, it was basically impossible. Local officials didn’t even enforce the law of this terror when it was actually against the law. I just don’t understand why they had to this to the blacks just trying to live there lives and give to the community like everyone else.

1. The event I think is the most important is in 1920 when woman won the right to vote. I’ve always been fascinated with the powerful women who fought to get those rights. Watching movies and videos and reading articles in school about protesting outside of the white house standing the winter freezing cold day in and out. Sometimes being physically harmed by officers trying to get them off of the property. The numerous amount of times they tried to get the right to vote for women ratified. Then after seventy-years of struggle they finally did it. The result of blacks getting there voting rights before women is what sparked their hunger to vote, after that they got together and formed women activist groups to claim suffrage.

1. For the application form, the part where they can’t register to affiliate their choice of party Is really harsh. Considering the officials then just place people on whatever side they want to. Meaning putting black votes where they don’t count towards the actual election. So even if blacks were able to be registered as a voter, it would be as if they hadn’t been registered. Because their vote doesn’t count. The application is four pages long and they don’t even have the affiliation choices on it. That’s very ignorant and messed up.                                                                                                                                    Another part of the test that I find difficult is the reading. For the oral test part a register is supposed to read aloud a given piece or words. The unfair part was the amount of words and he difficulty given to the different races. The officials made it harder for the backs by giving them a long paragraph with big words in it. They made it easier for the white by making there reading material only a sentence long or just even a few words. Black people’s educations wasn’t the best, so that was a weakness for them to gain registry. Most whites didn’t even have to actually register to be registered, so they basically took the test for fun. Also they had restrictions on what grade level you had to take it, which was at least 5th grade education. Yet officials let whites with and education less then that take the test and then pass them. But blacks who have degrees in college would be failed and denied to vote.

1. Anyone who wasn’t white was given the test to register. Although they’d never let them get that far. If non-whites had at least a 5th grade education, then they wanted them to take it. But they also made blacks with college degrees take it as well. Whites could take the test even if their education was very low for example a 2nd grade education. Whites always passed no matter their low score and black always failed no matter how high their score was. So in the end the officials who were all white did all they possibly could to make it look like blacks had the chance to vote but then really they just played with their rights, but let other whiter do whatever they wanted.