SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Absentee Ballot, Gerrymandering, Tim Wise
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Race is the biggest determinant when it comes to votes (they aim towards difference races to get votes) During reconstruction: nearly all african americans considered themselves republicans. 1964 presidential election: 94% of african americans voted for lyndon johnson, the. Response to economic and political forms of racial domination. Gave aa small peices of land to grow crops and live, in return, black will give white portion of crops they would grow. Planters gave black sharecroppers just enough to survive and never enough. 15th: the right to vote regardless of race or former slave status. Black people were beaten and murdered into submission. Going to the polls would be risking their lives. Clearly as a means to restricts who could vote. If you had ancestors who had the right to vote (before the civil. Since it was illegal for slaves to learn to read, those who were freed are illiterate.
