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African American Voter registration map Document Based Questions



2. What state increased its African-American voter registration by 54% between 1960 and 1971? 3. What state increased its percentage of African-American voters the least? 4. Why might Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee have had the highest percentages of African Americans registered to vote? 5. What does this map compare? 6. Which states increased their African-American registered voters by more than 30%? 7. How might the location of Texas have affected its registration percentage?
 * 1) How many states had more than half of the African-American voting age population registered to vote in 1960?

__**From Martin Luther King's I have a Dream Speech**__ Five score years ago, a great American. . . signed the Emancipation Proclamation. . . . But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination;. . . So I say to you, my friends, that even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed-we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. . . . I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

1.. What event does King refer to in his opening words, and what does he say is still a problem one hundred years after the event? 2. What is King's dream for the American nation, and what is his dream for his children? 3. What is King comparing the life of the African Americans in 1963 to and why? 4. In which states would civil rights workers want to hold registration drives after 1971?