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Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 1 P50

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 1 P50 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 478 BAKER V. CARR establishments in job opportunities raises and promotions and in the use of public schools Pub. L. No. 88-352 78 Stat. 241 . While the Freedom Riders traveled across the South SNCC also pursued voter registration. In 1963 Baker went to Mississippi to help with the Freedom Vote a project of CORE and SNCC. The Freedom Vote was a mock election intended to demonstrate that contrary to the opinions held by many white southerners blacks were interested in voting. Baker assisted the project by speaking at rallies setting up polling places and collecting and counting the ballots on voting day. The Freedom Vote was a big success More than 80 000 of the 90 000 people who cast ballots that day were black even though only around 20 000 blacks were registered for real elections. Two years later in August 1965 the efforts of Baker and thousands of other activists bore fruit when the Voting Rights Act Pub. L. No. 89-110 79 Stat. 437 was passed. The Voting Rights Act nearly eliminated one of the last ways that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting the literacy test by prohibiting its use in states where fewer than 50 percent of eligible voters were registered. In 1964 Baker again helped organize a civil rights group. The group was the Mississippi Freedom democratic party MFDP begun in response to an established political party the Mississippi Democratic party. The MFDP attempted to represent the state of Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City New Jersey by claiming that as an interracial group it was better able to do so than the all-white Mississippi Democratic party. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY vice PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED states and Walter F. Mondale Minnesota attorney general suggested a compromise Two MFDP members could be named as delegates to the convention but would not be part of Mississippi s delegation. The MFDP refused this offer but its request was the catalyst for a new rule passed by the national Democratic