Kids Say the Darnedest Things - Part 2 of 2

Following up on yesterday's post, here are some additional passages from a 15th Amendment essay on the Advanced Placement U.S. Government Exam.

• The Montgomery buss boycott led to the doctrine of “separate but equal” which helped give blacks more civil rights.
• Congress passed the 1/3 act. Each African American vote counted for a 1/3 vote.
• 15th Amendment made it leagle for African Americans to vote.
• Discriminatory behavior is not tolerated today, and everyone is completely equal. While voting.
• Back in the 1960s there was a high proportion of African American slaves whom were not able to vote.
• Greater turn out among African American voters has increased the margin of error in our elections.
• Whites purposefully wrote ballots cryptically so they couldn’t be used properly. This discouraged the black voter and perpetuated hatred.
• Some African Americans joined the mafia was a result of John Crow laws.
• During the 1960s civil rights movement, protestors sent letters and emails peacefully to the President LBT.
• Rosa Parks was an elderly African American woman who became the cover girl for racial integration.
• MLK marched down the streets of a small Alabama town singing songs. When he arrived at a voting booth, a woman was asked to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar. When she guessed wrong the police arrested her.
• The literacy tests were graded unfairly (something I hope you will not do on this exam).
• Many blacks were illiterate, or couldn’t even talk, so voting was out of the question.
• It’s not a lie that we’ve had racial segregation.
• The NATO was an African organization that helped abolish discrimination in a way.
• African Americans may have been freed, but they were still mad at the government for making them go through all that labor.

N.B. My friend who provided these answers was not grading the essays of her students. They were essays from kids nationwide, and they were graded without the names of the students being known.