Meeting will be at the Main Library - Huenefeld Tower Room. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the core of one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement: the Voting Rights Act.
The 1965 bill, propelled by the historic march of protestors from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama, officially put an end to the literacy tests, poll taxes, and voting restrictions that had disenfranchised millions of minority voters for decades. And it went further than that: it also required areas of the country with a history of using these discriminatory tactics to get federal approval before making any changes to voting.
Soon after the ruling in 2013, polling locations were closed and many of the closed polls were in neighborhoods with large minority populations. We will review the history and ramifications of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Then we will discuss what are the possible solutions to solving attacks on our nations voting rights in our community, our state and our nation.If you are able, please bring a dish to share. Please let us know if you have any needs to allow you to participate fully..
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Meeting will be at the Main Library – Huenefeld Tower Room. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the core of one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement: the Voting Rights Act.
The 1965 bill, propelled by the historic march of protestors from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama, officially put an end to the literacy tests, poll taxes, and voting restrictions that had disenfranchised millions of minority voters for decades. And it went further than that: it also required areas of the country with a history of using these discriminatory tactics to get federal approval before making any changes to voting.
Soon after the ruling in 2013, polling locations were closed and many of the closed polls were in neighborhoods with large minority populations. We will review the history and ramifications of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Then we will discuss what are the possible solutions to solving attacks on our nations voting rights in our community, our state and our nation.If you are able, please bring a dish to share. Please let us know if you have any needs to allow you to participate fully..