Reconstruction Amendments ~ APEX
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)"However, there is one major early historian of Africa in the best modern sense. This is Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), who, if he were better known to western scholars, might well usurp Herodotus' title of 'the father of history.' Iban Khaldun was, of course, a North African, native of Tunis. Part of his work is concerned with Africa.""The development of African historiography" by J.D. Fage 26-27As far as African American history goes:Years before there were any black history departments, Franklin was researching the stories of African-Americans. His interest in African American history began while he was a graduate student in the 1930s, and he published the book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans in 1947.Franklin was the first African-American to hold an endowed chair at Duke University, the first African-American chairman of the University of Chicago's history department and the first African-American president of the American Historical Association.Franklin also contributed to pivotal events of the civil rights movement; he worked with Thurgood Marshall's team of lawyers in the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education and he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr in a 1965 protest for voting rights in Montgomery, Alabama.
President Johnson took up the cause of civil rights. The Civil Rights Act in 1964 created the machinery to end segregation and discrimination in the workplace and all public places. The Voting Rights Act the following year made it easier for African Americans to vote in southern states. Laws alone, however, could not guarantee the Great Society that Johnson talked about creating. He soon faced bitter social unrest.
suffrage :) apex
the usa
ways to prevent african americans from voting.
ways to prevent african americans from voting.
Lincoln hoped to limit voting to a small portion of African Americans.
They used threats and violence in order to prevent African Americans from voting
African Americans began voting for democrats because of FDR. (apex)
African Americans were often excluded from the voting because they did not own land or pay the taxes required of voters. They were sometimes excluded from voting with the use of laws that excluded them.
The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US Constitution gave citizenship and voting rights to African-Americans.
15th ammement
The Radical Republicans supported the measure to ensure voting rights for African Americans.
African Americans began voting for democrats because of FDR. (apex)
African Americans
Limit voting to a small portion of African Americans - APEX