Categorical Data: Before and After

Students explore the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on voter registration in Mississippi. They will interpret data in a two-way table and compute relative frequency tables. I had a difficult time with labels. The language of the report used white and non-white for the groups. I chose to use the language of the report. https://www2.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr12p753.pdf This is a youtube video clip of the scene from Selma in which Oprah Winfrey's character is denied her right to register to vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9t1tpbZQhk

By Paul Jorgens