... schools, segregation was soon put into play and white only clubs such as the Ku Klux Klan were made to get rid of the black threat. Poll taxes and literacy tests were made to eliminate the black vote. Soon after discrimination started Blacks started forming there own political groups led by the most highly educated and well to do blacks. A back ... fact it's biggest advocates. Blacks who had lost most of there identity in slavery now had something to join together and fight for. The Kennedy administration started the civil rights spark with the decision to federally back the supreme cou...

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