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...
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