Voter registration totals from official state election offices
Voting-age population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s CVAP tabulation
Methodology: Registration rates were calculated by dividing total registered voters by the estimated voting-age population for each county. Where racial breakdowns were available, Black registration rates were compared directly to Black voting-age population. Averages were derived across selected counties to illustrate structural exclusion and civic potential.
The legal history leading up to
Brown v. Board of Education
is explained by former NAACP leader, Benjamin Hooks.
The point that I am trying to make is that the leaders the civil rights local did something thinking. Somehow the thought has been put on us that we just marched and demonstrated. It was not marching feet, it was thinking minds.
It was the Charlie Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Motley, black lawyers from Maryland an…
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