Existing comment:
"The fire department never came"
Violence still prevented many African Americans from voting 95 years after the 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) submitted this photo to Congress during consideration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. CORE noted that this voting education site burned to the ground because "the fire department never came." The Act vastly increased the number of minority voters.
Photograph of the ruins of the Mt. Pleasant Society Hall in Gluckstadt, Mississippi, destroyed by fire on August 11, 1964, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives |