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- Created by: MillieLynch
- Created on: 21-04-15 21:19
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- 1957 Civil Rights Act (Eisenhower-Shocked at Little Rock)
- Aims
- Increase the number of registered black voters.
- Problems getting Act passed
- Lack of support from Democrats
- Eisenhower publicly admitted that he didn't understand parts of it.
- Right-wing Southern senators were totally against it
- Mixed opinion on Act from the Blacks
- some said they'd prefer no Act at all
- Some thought it was an important symbol, which could be better but could be built on
- Lack of support from Democrats
- What the Act accomplished
- Introduced penalties against anybody who obstructed someone attempt to register/ vote
- Limits of the Act
- Southerners against it: parts watered down or blocked
- Trials
- If found guilty of obstructing someones right to register
- In South only whites could be jury members
- Trials bias, would not sentence anyone guilty.
- In South only whites could be jury members
- If found guilty of obstructing someones right to register
- Aims
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