Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
Abdul Yaw Akachi was talking to his neighbors one sunny day in Florida when a voting rights advocate walked up to him.
Clutching a clipboard full of voter registration forms under his arm, Marq Mitchell knocked on the front door of a small, beige, stucco house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
When they looked over the steel-arched crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, the voting rights activists knew there would be trouble.
All across this country, the right to vote is under attack. But with your support, we’re fighting back in Southern courts and state legislatures with a newly formed team of legal, policy, and grassroots advocates.
Historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 established “Negro History Week” to celebrate the contributions to our nation made by Black people.