Blacks in Politics
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The late 1950s is an era of achievement for African Americans. African
Americans have been struggling for desegregation and voting rights ever
since the dawn of the twentieth century. If it were not for the freedom
movement (1954-1965), blacks may still have been in the same political
and economic strongholds that were suppressed by the white community.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Most of the measures securing black and Hispanic voting
rights were fashioned during the so-called Second Reconstruction, the
period beginning with Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) when several
statutes and judicial decisions were formulated to destroy the Jim Crow
System, discourage racial discrimination, and enable southern blacks to
participate equally in politics. The Brown decision, more than any other
case, signaled the emerging primary of equality as a guide to
constitutional decisions. (Hine, 2003)
The year following the Brown vs. Board of Education
decision, the Supreme Court released yet another ruling that is commonly
referred to as Brown II. This ruling stressed the practical process of
desegregation...