Introduction
Voting has historically played a significant role in the rights of US citizens, especially as a major source of contestation in modern US history. Voting not only helps to define… Read more »
Author Archives: Prof Burgin
Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Center for Mass Communication at Columbia University, Selma-Montgomery March, 1965 In January 1965, civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Selma, Alabama, after… Read more »
African American Women and the Vote
Document 16L: Mary B. Talbert, “Women and Colored Women,” The Crisis (August 1915): 184. It should not be necessary to struggle forever against popular prejudice, and with us as colored… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Center for Mass Communication, Selma-Montgomery March, 1965. New York: Columbia University, 1965. Voting Rights Act of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-110. (1965). Secondary Sources Anderson, Carol. 2018. One Person, No… Read more »
Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Center for Mass Communication at Columbia University, Selma-Montgomery March, 1965 In January 1965, civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Selma, Alabama, after the local… Read more »