<span>Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, or the right to be brought before a judge to tell what one is being charged with, in the border states during the beginning of the civil war in order to prevent them from seceding. He considered it necessary for the preservation of the union.</span>
<span>Basically, many civil rights leaders felt the NAACP was an institution devoted not to expanding civil rights for all African Americans, but promoting the economic privileges of a small, black middle class. As I recall from my Twentieth Century Black Militancy class in university, for a long time the NAACP never pursued litigation to advance social justice for all blacks. It was perceived as an organization that was content to advance a certain amount of economic progress within the larger white power frame and without trying to change the existing white power structure, which was dominated by segregation and jim crow. </span>
Citizens 18 and older can vote , you don’t have to pay a poll tax to vote .
