There were many different ways blacks were discriminated against. One of the ways was voting. To prevent blacks from voting, there was a voucher system that a registered voter had to vouch for them and they could only vouch once.1 Southern blacks were also prevented from voting by having to pay poll taxes and take literacy tests.2 In Mississippi, in a district of eighteen thousand blacks, not one was registered to vote.3

There were also many actions by the government to deny civil rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1883 ruled it unconstitutional that public accommodations accord equal treatment to all people regardless of race.4 The Supreme court in Plessy vs. Ferguson gave the south the power to deny rights solely based on color.5 The arrest of the Freedom riders and the students in Albany was also a very big issue.

Rosa Parks and many other individuals also tried to stop segregation. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks a 43-year old seamstress who worked in a department store downtown boarded a bus and refused to move when a white man needed her seat and she was arrested.17 In his Nashville workshops, James Lawson taught the discipline of nonviolence to students who wanted to challenge segregation.18 In Charleston, South Carolina on September 3, 1963, eleven Negro high school children began classes with whites in four high schools without fanfare.19

There were many actions by the government that supported blacks. In 1875, Congress passed a civil rights act which provided that public accommodations accord equal treatment to all people regardless of race.9 Attorney General Robert Kennedy dispatched six hundred federal marshals to an air force base outside of Montgomery to enforce this law. A third of them were sent to the city to protect the freedom riders.10 On June 19, 1963, Kennedy submitted a comprehensive civil rights bill to congress.11 In 1954 Supreme Court ordered desegregation of public schools.12 During the Kennedy administration the number of blacks in the U.S. Attorneys department of justice increased from zero to seventy.

lso another big issue during segregation. Jim Zwerg, a white man from Wisconsin was the first freedom rider to leave the bus. As soon as he got off, the mob grabbed him a

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