HuffPost: The Civil Rights Movement Is On The Ballot This November

The civil rights movement is on the ballot this November.

Don’t fool yourself for a second by thinking the movement is a closed chapter in history, or that its work is finished. The struggle for civil rights goes on in 2018 ― and just as in 1870 and 1965, it runs straight through the right to vote.

That hard-won right is under attack. In the last several years, politicians have become increasingly brazen in their drive to block people of color from participating in our democracy.

For proof, consider Georgia, where I serve as state director for the voting rights organization Let America Vote. Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary state who is running for governor, has purged hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls and is now refusing to process 53,000 voter registrations, primarily from black Georgians.

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Read Let America Vote-Georgia State Director Porsha White’s full column here.