In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
“Outside of the economy, people are motivated by erosion of rights,” said its executive director Adrianne Shropshire, ...
Almost 100 years later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished these ... Mississippi, where Black people were in the majority. While life for Blacks in America was never a bed of roses, the ...
We caught up with Black women who voted early in three cities to find out what they're hoping for after this very contentious ...
The former first lady also conducted her own scrupulously nonpartisan rally on Tuesday where speakers evoked the South's ...
Not until Election Day will we learn how various demographic groups will vote ... Latino and Black voters. I think it’s the most important electoral trend of our time, and some people are ...
From the top of the Democratic presidential ticket to the grassroots workers on the ground, Black women are once again doing their part to expand voting rights, ensure people of color have their ...
Half of Leon County's registered voters have already cast their ballots. A 'Power of the Ballot' brunch educated neighbors in ...
Lamar D. Smith, 63, Negro, shot down on lawn of Lincoln County Courthouse at Brookhaven, Miss., Aug. 16, 1955. Smith had been ...
Almost 100 years later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished these roadblocks to ... register to vote since Reconstruction in Humphreys County, Mississippi, where Black people were in the majority.