Civil Rights Issues in America

Even though racism and segragation were very bad in the 40's and 50's, it is still happening today. As said in a blog on http://www.care2.com/ In Arizona on the November 02, 2010, election day, a group called the anti-immigration group was against illegal immigrants voting in the election. It was said that an army of volunteers would be there to stop them. The email sent to people was supposed to scare hispanics from voting. The volunteers had firearms when the immigrants went to vote and harrassed them by asking if they had ID. The Department of Justice is said to send poll watchers to help at polling places in the country from now on to ensure everyone who has the right to vote and not be harrassed. I think that if they are illegal they shouldn't be able to vote because they crossed over the border illegally and should be legal to vote to decide who runs our country, but I don't think they should go to the extent of having firearms at polling places to scare them.

Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan

In this book a girl named Sam has to move to Jackson, Mississippi after her fathers death. She goes to school and meets a girl Mary Alice and they become friends. Many people look at her and her mother weird because they think they are going to try and change the ways of the South. In the South they see black and whites as different and Sam thinks they shouldn't be treated differently. In Mississippi many people were violent towards blacks going to the extent of blowing up a bomb in a church. There is no right to descriminate towards people of different race and color we are all people and have feelings.