“The following statement about the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South which is true is that white voting officials administered difficult literacy tests to African American voters. Since African Americans were denied the same standard of education as American Whites, when offered literacy tests they often had trouble completing them. The voting officials were aware of this, but did it anyways, as it was another way for them to hinder African Americans from voting and from entering the larger society.”
The main reason why the African-American students in Greensboro, North Carolina staged a sit-in in 1960 was that they were racial discriminately denied a service in the restaurant there. Therefore, in an attempt to desegregate the South, they protested peacefully to the opposition by staging a "sit-in."
Beginning with George Washington's presidency, the United States sought a policy of isolationism and neutrality with regards to the internal affairs of other nations.
