Clause. Also when some blacks went to vote, people simply wouldn't let

them register. Due to lack of voting ability, no blacks were elected into

office and therefore, blacks had no say in the government. Also, blacks

were not allowed to serve on juries, yet they were almost always found

guilty in court, even if the evidence was clearly against them. For

example, years ago a boy in Georgia broke into a school to steal an ice

cream. While he should have gotten a few hours of community service, he

got three years in jail just because he was black. A truth to the Kerner

Commission report that occurs today is that blacks are not being

represented in Congress proportionally. While 12% of U.S. citizens are

black, there is only one black in the Senate out of a hundred seats. This

is a failure because blacks should be proportionally represented because

it is their right to have a sufficient say in government. However, the

civil rights movement was more of a success because blacks got the vote.

The 24th amendment outlawed the Poll tax, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

protects the rights of all citizens to vote, and the Voting Rights Act of

to make sure that they aren't discriminated again. Because of this new

civil rights movement was a huge success in this area because blacks are

goals was to have political power and equal opportunity. A second reason

whites were segregated in every public place imaginable such as

why the civil rights movement was politically more of a success than a

economic sense, the Kerner report has some truth today, but overall the

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