Cartoon: The afro-americans (Richmond) May 22, 1954 1. What is this cartoon depicting?

2. What images do you see in this cartoon?

3. Does the artist use any symbols?

4. What is used and what are they meant to represent?

5. What message is the artist trying to convey?

6. Does the cartoon hold any bias toward the Court’s decision? Explain.

He seventeenth amendment to the us constitution calls for the direct election of all us senators. this means that the people of each state get to vote to decide who will be their two us senators. before this, the legislatures of each state chose the two us senators from that state with no direct involvement of the average voter. why would this amendment be considered a reform? how would it benefit the people? even today some people claim that the seventeenth amendment was a bad idea. what arguments could be made for reverting selection of us senators back to the state legislatures?

In 1964 congress of racial equality and the student nonviolent coordinating committee launched

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