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Fair Fight, CAP Action will bring people to Washington to lobby lawmakers face-to-face for voting rights bills
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Jackson Lee is third CBC member in three weeks to be arrested protesting for voting rights
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He spoke in a Boston-accented monotone that barely rose above a whisper, hated personal attention, and was a brilliant Harvard-trained mathematician who quoted Albert Camus.
Bob Moses, who died this week at age 86, was an unconventional civil rights leader. He didn t energize crowds with fiery speeches, and wasn t known for leading marches, yet few leaders have inspired such veneration.
Moses helped put the Black struggle for voting rights on the national radar at a time when many judges, politicians, and ordinary Americans were indifferent to the issue. He was beaten numerous times and almost killed while registering Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s. Still, he never gave up.
Bob Moses s heroic fight for voting rights should inspire today s movement, civil rights leaders say
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Black Women Leading the Fight For Voting Rights
This summer has brought protests, rallies and arrests for the cause. WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 15: Melanie Campbell, CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, speaks during a news conference outside the AFL-CIO headquarters on July 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The organized labor advocates called for the Senate to repeal the filibuster to allow passage of several bills they support, including the For The People Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Act. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Alarmed by a wave of bills sweeping state legislatures around the country and a recent Supreme Court decision that critics contend will dismantle voting rights, Black women and their allies are taking courageous, coordinated steps to fight back.