Coming of Age in Mississippi | Compare and Contrast
- 1950s: Before 1965, fewer than six percent of African Americans in Mississippi are registered to vote.
1960s: After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thousands of southern African Americans register to vote. By 1968, some fifty-nine percent of eligible African-American voters in Mississippi are registered.
Today: In the late 1990s, of the total 1,975,000 of Mississippi voters, 670,000 are African American. Overall in the United States, 23.5 million African Americans are registered to vote, but only 63.5 percent report having...
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