Voter Registration in the South:
1960: White: 61.1% African American: 29.1%
1970: White: 62.9% African American: 62%
-Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1990
What evidence supports the idea that equality has been
achieved based on the percentage of people from each
group who vote?

By 1970, the percentage of African Americans and
whites voting were nearly equal.

By 1960, the same percentage of African Americans and whites were voting.

Fewer African Americans were voting in 1970 than
in 1960.