The Importance Of The 24th Amendment

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, once said, “The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straight jacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.” In 1787 the delegates from twelve out of thirteen sates attended the Constitutional Convention. They threw away the Articles of Confederation and wrote Constitution of the United States. Many residences were hesitant to the sudden change, but as time went along people came around to the fact that the Constitution was useful. Although the Constitution is viewed as completely binding, it does allow for changes to be made, giving it flexibility to the changing times.

Although slavery had been outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment, it continued in many southern states. In an effort to get around laws passed by Congress, southern states created black codes, which were discriminatory state laws which aimed to keep white supremacy in place. While the codes granted certain freedoms to African Americans, their primary purpose was to fulfill an important economic need in the postwar South. To maintain agricultural production, the South had relied on slaves to work the land. Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their ties to the land.

Finally, with the ratification of the 24th Amendment in 1964, the right to vote could not be determined by the ability to pay poll taxes. This was a major advancement for Black voters, as taxes were often used to deny them the right to vote, despite it being a right outlined in the Fifthteenth Amendment. Historically, African Americans were not taught to read and write, and slave children were denied access to education. In a similar manner, women were not well educated as it wasn’t needed to carry out their duties at home. As a result, tests were used to deny Blacks and women from voting at polls.

He compares the Afro-Americans to those bees, who are deprived and meagrely paid by their white bosses. But unlike the bees the African-American people are able to escape from this cycle, as Hughes emphasises (172). According to him the state of economic imbalance can and will be overcome. One of his most important poems during the Red Decade is "One More “S” in the U.S.A.", published in 1934. Hughes describes his visions of a new American state.

After all, as Michael J. Klarman, a graduate of Harvard Law School, puts it, “Many black servicemen apparently calculated that if they were good enough to die for their country, they were also good enough to vote, to work, or to attend school with white people” (Klarman 17). The philosophy the veterans obtained sped up the civil rights movement because now the people coming back from the battle were tired of second-hand citizenship in a country that they just defended. The only problem with this philosophy was that the freedoms for which they fought so hard to earn weren’t given to them when they got back home. The servicemen, seeing the injustice that they faced, decided to protest for their rights by holding rallies and marches, asking the government to take action: and action they took. Truman was president post-war and during his presidency people like A Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist, were able to convince his administration and Congress to make reforms.

“Beginning in the late 1870s, Southern state lawmakers passed laws that required Whites and Blacks to attend separate schools and to sit in different areas on public transportation.” (“Jim Crow Laws” 1). People thought these laws were needed because “The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America;” (“

It was mostly negative because the workers had bad conditions and low pay.With low pay they wouldn’t have enough money to maintain them or their families. The effect of the imperialism in Africa for social is positive because the British helped on getting rid of slavery which help Africans have better opportunities such as helping finding a cure and expanding their education. The most important thing about social is that they got rid of slavery because it wasn’t fair for Africans to work with low pay for the hard work they did, when without slavery they are able to do better

During the Progressive time, the main goal was to expand the government to a social setting instead of a political environment. African Americans were considered inferior to the white culture. Child labor was seen in all factories, they would work in the cruelest conditions for little to no pay. During this time, it was Congress’ decision whether or not child labor was legal or not. In present day, African American have a lot more freedom than written in history.

The death penalty, Britain influenced American use of the death penalty more than any other country. When the Europeans were immigrating to America, they brought with them the death penalty. The first ever recorded execution in American was captain George Kendall in Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. Ever since then America has had the death penalty by law, but is still legal in 33 states and illegal in 18 states. The death penalty should be illegal in every state because it puts innocent people at risk, does not have any effect on crime rates, and life imprisonment is cheaper than the death penalty.

But then president Franklin gave the black Americans hope, since he made the New Deal Program, that benefits the blacks (though he didn’t end the Jim Crows law, because he still want the support from the southern). Jobs became available again after world war two, many blacks came to the north to get job and get rid of the Jim Crows law. Though the northern militaries were influenced by the southerns attitude to the blacks, so there was a segregation in the military. From 1920s blacks were slowly being accepted, through their books, sports and