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SPLC Mississippi Advocacy Institute Application
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Advocacy Institute in Mississippi is an annual nine-week training program designed to help provide practical, hands-on experience and training in the field of advocacy. This application is for fellows who will be taught how voting can bring positive change at the local level, how to forge coalitions and uplift communities, and how…
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Vote Your Voice grantee puts public education on the agenda in Mississippi
Almost two decades ago, Nancy Loome received a call from her state representative in Clinton, Mississippi. It was a plea: Could she stop telling people to contact him about his record on education funding? After three days of persistent calls and emails, he felt harassed at every turn. “I thought, that’s great,” she said. “That’s…
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Energizing and registering voters with Mississippi’s Got Now: Road to 60
Sixty years after Freedom Summer began in Mississippi to register Black voters, the Southern Poverty Law Center this month launched the Mississippi’s Got Now: Road to 60: Reigniting the Fight for Freedom voter engagement campaign. This effort by the SPLC and its partners aims to register 60,000 new or inactive voters in Mississippi with the…
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Mississippi HBCU students join Hip-Hop Text-a-Thon event to mobilize voters
Sitting in a lecture hall at Jackson State University’s College of Business in Mississippi, professor D’Andra Orey took an informal poll of the dozen or so political science students. “How many of y’all are registered to vote?” he asked. Just about every hand in the room shot up. “And how many of y’all plan to…
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SPLC and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Announce Recipients of Vote Your Voice Field Strengthening Grants
Grants will empower communities of color through funding for voter registration and mobilization, civic engagement, and leadership development in the Deep South
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Ann Saunders, et al. v. State of Mississippi, et al.
After Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed legislation creating a special judicial district within the city of Jackson where judges would be appointed rather than elected – and ultimately disenfranchise Black voters – the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit by other advocacy groups challenging the action as a violation of…
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Disability Rights Mississippi, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, et al.
After Mississippi enacted a law that violates the right of residents with disabilities to receive voting assistance from the person of their choice, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners challenged the law in federal court. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Disability Rights Mississippi, the League of Women Voters of Mississippi and three…
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Dyamone White, et al. v. State Board of Election Commissioners, et al.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and allied organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging the voting district lines used to elect members of the Mississippi Supreme Court. The suit contends that the lines, which have not been adjusted in 35 years, dilute the voting strength of Black voters. The state’s population is nearly 40% Black, a…
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SPLC Reports Reveal Current Conditions of Racial Discrimination in Voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi
Restored Voting Rights Act needed to dismantle present and future barriers to the ballot box
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Parham v. Watson
The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi’s burdensome absentee ballot requirements to ensure all voters have the opportunity to cast a ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the November 2020 general election. The federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of Mississippi with Lawyers’…
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