America. There have been many struggles and battles over

this issue in our history. From the 1940’s on, America was

segregated in many ways. African Americans had to drink

from different water fountains, were not allowed to sit at

the front of the bus, and there were two different schools,

one for the colored kids and one for the white kids. There

were many efforts throughout the years to try and get rid of

this horrible segregation, but at many times it led to

trouble rather then helped. There was one major group that

came about to try and work on desegregation and they were

the NAACP, led by educated middle class African Americans.

The job of the NAACP was to try and fight discrimi

at a white women, only 14 years old got lynched. This shows

went to try to fix this problem, but they ran into a bigger

it was ratified in 1964. By 1965 The Voting Rights Act

because it seemed to me to be the most important of all the

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