This piece is trying to say is that everybody had to take the literacy test to be able to vote. So, you had to be able to read a paper and then if you got it right, you could vote. That was hard for the African Americans because they were slaves and they didn't have an education. Since, they didn't have an education, they didn't know how to read. This piece is significant to this era because before Civil Rights African Americans could not vote because they had to take literacy tests and go through a grandfather clause. They would fail the literacy tests because as slaves you weren't allowed to read because the slave owners thought that if the slaves knew how to read then the slaves would be able to take over the farm. The Grandfather clause was if your grandfather could vote before the 1860's then you could vote, but what the slaves didn't know was that there grandfathers couldn't vote because they were ALL SLAVES AT THE TIME.
This piece is trying to say that people would be mean to African Americans and try to take there house and land. For example, there was a terrorist group named the KKK, that would take African Americans home or land. So, the police would do it to, so they wouldn't think that they just took the house. This piece is significant to this era because before the Civil Rights, whites weren't being equal to the African Americans.
This piece is trying to say that whites were working with African Americans to help end discrimination and segregation. This piece is significant to this era because it has whites working with blacks to help solve a problem which has never happened before because the African Americans were appreciated back then.
This piece is trying to say that nobody (African Americans) would ride the bus because they were boycotting the bus in honor of Rosa Parks. One person who lead this boycott was Martin Luther King Jr. This piece is significant to this era because it represents the African Americans standing up for themselves for the first time without getting hurt.