Chapter 4

In chapter 4, a Black woman named Dorthy Milton, who lived in Selma, Alabama, tried to register to vote. Selma was the MOST segregated place in US history. Her story shows the unreasonable voting process for Blacks at the time. She was forced to wait 3 hours, when no one else was even there in line ahead of her, and then she asked again, and she was forced to pay 5 dollars (expensive at the time, plus it is against the law to have to pay to vote) and go thru a registration. Her husband was fired from his job because she insisted that she be allowed to register to vote.

Selma, Alabama in the 1980s, after the Civil Rights Movement