African Americans continued to fight for their freedom and equal rights. Martin Luther king became a powerful non violent leader of the movement. MLK led non violent marches, sit ins and praying in Birmingham. Even though these movements were non violent and just made so that the would get into the consciences of the white man, yet police still unleashed attack dogs and men with electric prongs on the protesters. Kennedy realized how horrible this was and proposed the Civil Rights Act. Kennedy was killed shortly after. The law was passed shortly after that gave blacks equal rights as white but it did not entitle voting laws. shortly after another law, the Voting Rights Act was passed which protected the voting rights of blacks. blacks could now be in office.
there was a qoute in this section that i really liked.
"white folks would drive past your house with a pick up truck with guns hanging up in the back and give you a hate stares... those same people now call me Mrs. Hamer." (692)
i really liked this because it shows how the tables turned. They once believed that blacks were useless and now they got respect from whites.
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