The purpose of the Voting Rights Act
President Lyndon Johnson appended her signature to the Voting Rights Act on the 6th of August, 1965, with the aim of doing away with racial prejudice in voting. (Mickey et.al 2017)
Prior to the signing of the VRA into law, African Americans were robbed of the right to vote in majority of the Southern states. It is a wonder how this happened and the 15th Amendment had already stipulated that the government will allow all citizens to vote, regardless of their color, race or whether they were… Continue Reading...
equal rights, African-Americans were subjected to oppression with no voting rights. In the government services and public facilities, the domains of whites and black were separated. However, the black population lacked financial resources to fight for their rights. With the "Supreme Court victory of Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 that rejected separation of white and black school systems (11)"[footnoteRef:6] marked the beginning of civil and social right movements. However, this Supreme Court decision did not have immediate effects, nevertheless, it assisted in producing effects such as boycotts, and marches that marked the era of civil rights movements,… Continue Reading...
women went abroad as nurses, and this gave them strong moral arguments for their voting rights. Women tactics and immoral way of treatment forced the Congress to act on the issue, and it was on August 26, 1920, that President Wilson declares his favor on women suffrage. From this day on, the style of women changed and between 1910 and 1920, many women were present in the labor force. Moreover, a notable difference was also evident in the kind of works the women engaged in, and this led to the decrease in the number of female household servants, dressmakers, farmhands, and cooks. Nonetheless, an… Continue Reading...
in promoting the rights of women and equality in society. Their fight bore fruit after the enactment of voting rights in 1965. After the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the movement formed by women evolved into a new organization. NAWSA was quickly converted into the League of women by Carrie Chapman Catt earlier. NAWSA evolved into the League of Women Voters after the Amendment in 1920. The organization sought to make the vote of women effective within the existing traditional political systems. Alice Paul had formed the National Women's Party. They worked separately to seek a different strategy by their introduction of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).… Continue Reading...
of the nation's population (such as females, Blacks, etc.) deprived of voting rights. The female suffrage movement or struggle for winning voting rights for females continued throughout the major part of the 1800s and into the early 1900s[footnoteRef:1]. While a few states allowed female participation in elections, both as contesters and voters, before the 19th Amendment's enforcement, its ratification on 18th August, 1920 ensured voting rights were extended to every woman in America[footnoteRef:2]. Ever since its ratification, US society has universally acknowledged female voting rights. [1: William W. Hodes, "Women and the Constitution" Rutgers L. Rev. 25 (1970): 26.] [2: Carol… Continue Reading...
this wasn't the case originally – voting rights took time to diffuse to all citizens.
There are differences in specific democratic structures, such as whether one has the ability to directly elect the head of state, but in general the foundational democratic principle is self-determination, so citizens have the right to elect their leaders. Going along with this, and differentiating democracy from other systems, is that all citizens have the right to run for elected office – opposition groups are allowed participation in the political process.
Information and the Role of the Media
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Martha Stewart
Stewart's control of shareholder voting rights disrupted the functioning of the board because Stewart was able to exercise control over the board. She put her hairdresser on the board, and clashed with the board over her compensation. Her involvement, combined with terms of her release, led to a convoluted management structure that undermined both governance and board function, in terms of being able to set the direction of the company. The directors found it difficult to act in the best interests of MSO, when those interests clashed with the best interests of Stewart herself,… Continue Reading...
voting rights, jury or business involvement, or solo travelling rights. Their husbands were considered their masters to all intents and purposes. “The adoption of this system of inequality never was the result of deliberation, or forethought, or any social ideas, or any notion whatever of what conduced to the benefit of humanity or the good order of society. It arose simply from the fact that from the very earliest twilight of human society, every woman (owing to the value attached to her by men, combined with her inferiority in muscular… Continue Reading...
the core tenants of “Economic Sustainability, Education, Health, Public Safety and Criminal Justice, and Voting Rights and Political Representation” (“NAACP,” 2018, par.1). What is particularly noteworthy about this phrasing is the fact that it is clear that La Pina ensured that the organization stayed true to its original values but created a new, more concise, and future-focused agenda to lead the historic civil rights group into the future.
Commensurate with its belief that nonprofits must be run like a business, La Piana also stressed that the NAACP must engage in benchmarking, ensuring that the newly-defined values had specific quality standards to achieve. “For each… Continue Reading...
