Decision Twelve: Register to Vote?

• The fifteenth amendment guaranteed black males in the United States the right to vote.

• By voting, blacks could make a change in their government, electing leaders who would protect their rights

• Southern groups like the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan did all that they could to prohibit blacks from voting.

• Those blacks who registered to vote were often the ones targeted by the Klan for midnight lynchings

Watch this explanation of the dilemma that continued well into the 20th century: