James Mastalerz

Skateboarding. Photography. Cinematography. Chicago Based. @realskateboards @indy_trucks @BONESWHEELS @Bonesbearings @mobgrip @nikesb #skateboardingisfun

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@Tmoneyram Nice point, the law made it clear that African Americans were able to register to vote but the enforcers did everything they could to prevent it

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@Tmoneyram I agree 100%, just because laws exist doesn't mean the law enforcement will enforce them. (Nice Gif Tram Bao 😂)

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The actions of the president struggling to make a federal decision upon the issue of voting and how to keep African Americans safe/morally eligible to vote is understandable but I believe the hatred from white southerners at the time called for much quicker action. #MESelma18

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The violent treatment of such a peaceful protest on the bridge truly shows the hate and racism that whites of the time had against African Americans, tear gas and batons wrapped in barbed wire reveals the true level of hate that the anti-Civil Rights groups held #MESelma18

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Regardless if the law stated blacks had the right to vote, the people who were working the registration centers could pass or fail the applicant with little to no overseeing by the federal government. Things were quite corrupt in Selma, Alabama. #MESelma18

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In order for African Americans to vote, they had to register but were also given near impossible questions to answer such as naming the 67 county judges in Alabama. Not even a single person reading this could name all of the county judges in the state they live in. #MESelma18

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@tina_0167 It's crazy that the men of that time would be so extreme as to throw glass bottles at women when they could display their emotions in a much more calm and respective manner.

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@jvachachira18 I agree 100% with you. Women's suffrage today is seen as perfectly fine and normal but back then it wasn't. I can't even see why someone would think that women shouldn't have rights.

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The abusive treatments faced at the Occoquan Workhouse were very miserable. Force feeding raw eggs to the suffragists showed how mistreated they were and how bad the anti-suffragists of the time thought they were. The women were essentially being tortured. #MEIronJawedAngels17

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The common man of the 20th Century saw the right of a woman to vote as a "political danger". It is quite difficult to process that today considering that now both men and women can vote freely. Times have changed greatly because of the women during this time. #MEIronJawedAngels17

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The ongoing division of whites and blacks caused further commotion within the struggle for women's suffrage. Black women were asked to march in the back of the parade to not cause anymore trouble but refused to and joined in the middle showing desire to fight #MEIronJawedAngels17

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It is crazy to see men throwing bottles and yelling at the marchers in the parade as if they were nothing. This truly shows the great tension women's suffrage caused as well as the great, difficult, and early steps that women took to achieve suffrage. #MEIronJawedAngels17

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@Sarena99740704 #MEGlory17 I agree with your statement about not knowing an all-black regiment existed back then, that was very interesting to me as well. It is also interesting how the African Americans in the movie are treated despite the Emancipation Proclamation already being enforced.

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#MEGlory17 Another example of unequal treatment towards African Americans would be their wage of $10 a month rather than the $13 a month wage that the white soldiers had been receiving

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#MEGlory17 Colonel Shaw shows mercy towards the man being whipped while the other military officers don't seem to be as emotionally affected

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#MEGlory17 “Any negro taken in arms against the Confederacy will immediately be returned to a state of slavery” All the soldiers in the 54th could discharge if they wanted to but yet they still continued to carry on with their desires to fight

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#MEGlory17 Fighting in the Civil War was a very intense, violent, and deadly task. African Americans were still happy to serve in fighting for an attempt to end slavery. Note that this is a significant point in time where African Americans can somewhat voice what they believe in

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#MEGlory17 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed more than 3 million slaves which opened up opportunities for African Americans to fight in the Civil War under the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

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10 Random But Very Interesting Things About Andrew Jackson https://t.co/KVfTHNcVY8 #jaxasnack

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Andrew Jackson, the founder of American Populism and a would be lover of Youtube 🖥️🎦 #jaxasnack