Thu 8 May 2008
On Being Mae Jemison

Renew the Voting Rights Act Project:

The Voting Rights Act is said, by many, to be the greatest of the Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s. You can read more

Register To Vote

Did you know that white men with property were the only citizens allowed to vote at the very beginning of our country’s democracy? Women were not allowed to vote until 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowered the voting age to 18 year old. President Gerald Ford renewed the Voting Rights Act in 1975 with special measures that permanently baned literacy tests for voter registration.
Times have changed so much that any citizen who is 18 can register to vote, except in states where felony convictions disallow it. We encourage you to get out to register. Take advantage of your power to vote. But you must register, first.

Register HERE:

“A Voteless People Is a Voiceless People.”

—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.