[“Bloody Sunday” Black Women’s March\Salute Selma]
We want to show the world that our voices matter and will be heard. While celebrating for the first time in history, black women leading this Historic Reenactment March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge!
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
SALUTE SELMA ORGANIZATION WILL HOLD BLACK WOMEN REENACTMENT OF 1965 “BLOODY SUNDAY” MARCH
DEMOCRATS JOHNSON AND NORTON HAIL U.S. HOUSE PASSAGE OF NEW ANTI-DISCRIMINATION VOTING RIGHTS BILL
[Congress\Voter Suppression\H.R. 4]
Since the Shelby v. Holder decision, at least 23 states have enacted voter suppression laws that encompass voter purges, strict ID requirements, poll closures and curtailing of early voting hours – including Georgia.
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CONGRESSWOMAN NORTON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION CONDEMNING VOTER SUPPRESSION AROUND NATION AND IN D.C.
[Congressional News\Voting Rights]
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act has been immeasurably harmful to our democracy. Following this decision, over a dozen states quickly moved to erect new barriers to voting, particularly targeting people of color, the elderly, and low-income residents.”
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