Voting Rights Act of 1965

For my final benchmark, I created a comic to tell the story of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and how it came into law.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
​    * Explain your decision making for choosing the bill.
    In order to complete this project to my best ability, I feel like I needed to chose
    a topic that really caught my interest. When it comes to equal rights and how those
    rights are not often given, it excites me to learn the story behind that. For my bill
    to be about voting rights really caught my interest also because there was a point
    in time where everyone couldn't vote and now that everyone can vote, not many people
    take advantage of that.
    
    * Why did you choose the particular presentation format?
    I wanted to catch the interest of my intended audience which would be the youth.
    As a youth, I can vouch and say when a lot of information is written in a word documented format, we tend to ignore that. But to make a comic book, I know I could really grab the youth's attention.
    
    * What challenges did you overcome in completing the project?
    One challenge I came across was trying to find space fillers for this project.
    There was a nice amount of information for the passing of this law but the
    information was really brief. Because the information was so brief, I had find things
    to go in between to expand the process and I came across a lot of events that
    influenced the passing of this law so I soon overcame this challenge.
    
    * How would you do the project differently if you had to do it over again?
    If I had to do the project over, I would probably get feedback on my product and
    peer & teacher reviews. I would like to see what I can change and fix to make sure
    my final product would be close to perfect.
    
    * What did the research and investigation tell you about the creation
       process... from idea to bill to law?
The research told me that the process wasn't easy. The Southern Legislators were pretty defiant about what rights African Americans were entitled to and they felt like
they were above the law for some reason.
    
    * Was the process easier or harder than you imagined based on your particular
    bill/law research?
    Because this was a topic I was really interested in, I found the process to be easy.
    The only thing hard about it was actually finding which bill I wanted to work with.
   

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