Why Voting Matters: Carrying Freedom Summer’s Legacy Forward
By Patrick Ervin, MCJ Program Manager, Civic Engagement In the summer of 1964, hundreds of volunteers came to Mississippi with one goal: to help Black Mississippians claim a right that […]
As the Voting Rights Act Turns 61, We Must Defend the Right to Vote
Sixty-one years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It came less than a year after Freedom Summer, when volunteers registered Black voters across Mississippi and three of […]
Democracy Is Under Attack and Mississippi Is Ground Zero
By Kimberly Jones Merchant, MCJ President and CEO Our democracy is in a state of emergency. The rights that past generations marched for, fought for, and risked their lives for are under threat. The representation that Black, […]