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1. After the passing of the nineteenth amendment, women’s rights activist Alice Paul pushed for the Mott amendment (Equal Rights Amendment) to further solidify women’s rights and end gender discrimination. Paul knew that the work of the Woman Suffrage movement was not finished in 1920.

In a similar vein, after the passing of the Voting Rights Act (1965), the Black Panther Party for Self-defense published their Ten Point Plan (1967) (Links to an external site.) to address the real-world problems faced by African Americans. The Black Panthers anticipated that the Voting Rights Act, would not adequately improve black lives.

Based on the demands of the Ten Point Program, what conditions did the Black panther party suggest voting rights would fall short of addressing?