In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. ... The act did not fulfill all of the goals of civil rights activists. It would take further grassroots mobilization, judicial precedent, and legislative action to guarantee civil rights for African Americans.
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adding poll taxes and literacy tests
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many African Americans couldnt pay the poll taxes and werent able to read very well so they were unable to pass and because of that were unable to vote
