question about civil rights movement in the 1950's

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

unless your prof told you there IS an answer to this question, i think he just wants you to tucker yourself out doing research. it's a trick question.

- who keeps track of voting records? voting is conducted on a local level, so you'll be working for a while trying to compile national numbers.

- i know it's civil rights era, but was was race "tracked" at the actual time of voting? I mean we're talking way before the Voting Rights Act so...

i'd get familiar with the sources in your textbooks footnotes/endnotes, as well as the sources on your secondary reading list - there might be a useful clue there as to where you can find an answer.

please keep us posted, i think it's really interesting :-)

My professor didn't tell us to look it up. A lot of people in my class were posting in the discussion that they were surprised that the White House was against the Civil Rights movement. I posted that I wasn't surprised by it at all seeing as how President Eisenhower was born in Texas in 1890. In addition, in his eyes, his responsible was to protect the interests of his constituents, the majority of which at the time were white voters. I just wanted to find figures to use in my response.

[AKA_Monet]

You may want to google the "Voting Rights Act" to see what is said specifically at the number of voters if delineated by race... The other location you may want to google is the "League of Women Voters" or other "voter education services". In fact, you may want to visit the DNC or RNC webpages and see what they say, today...

Let me know what you find...