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Important American History Moments That Happened in August
African American history is American history, and August includes several major turning points in the nation’s political, cultural, labor and civil-rights story.
From the arrival of Africans at Point Comfort in 1619 to the March on Washington in 1963, the month includes moments of achievement, resistance, tragedy and transformation. August also marks the anniversaries of the Voting Rights Act, Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court confirmation and the birth of the nation’s first African American president.
Here are some of the most important African American history dates to remember in August.
August 4, 1961: Barack Obama Was Born
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. He became the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office when he was inaugurated in January 2009.
Obama served two terms as president, from 2009 to 2017. His election represented a historic milestone nearly 150 years after the abolition of slavery and more than four decades after the Voting Rights Act became law.
Learn more from the Obama White House Archives.
August 6, 1965: The Voting Rights Act Was Signed
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965.
The landmark legislation prohibited racially discriminatory voting practices, including literacy tests used to prevent Black citizens from registering to vote. It also authorized federal intervention in jurisdictions with documented histories of discrimination.
The law followed years of organizing and sacrifice by civil-rights activists, including the voting-rights campaign and marches in Selma, Alabama.
Read the Voting Rights Act at the National Archives.
August 9, 1936: Jesse Owens Won His Fourth Olympic Gold Medal
Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin as a member of the United States 4-by-100-meter relay team.
Owens also earned gold medals in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and long jump. His achievements challenged Nazi Germany’s claims of Aryan racial superiority and established him as one of the most accomplished athletes in Olympic history.
Owens returned to a segregated United States, where he continued to face racial discrimination despite his international success.
August 17, 1887: Marcus Garvey Was Born
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica on August 17, 1887.
Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and became one of the early 20th century’s most influential advocates for Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism and economic independence.
His movement encouraged people of African descent around the world to take pride in their heritage, build Black-owned institutions and pursue political and economic self-determination.
August 18, 1920: The 19th Amendment Was Ratified
The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, prohibiting the federal government and states from denying voting rights based on sex.
Although the amendment represented an important victory, it did not guarantee equal access to the ballot for all women. Black women, particularly those living in the South, continued to confront poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, violence and other discriminatory barriers.
Black women remained central to the continuing struggle for voting rights, which eventually helped produce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Explore the 19th Amendment through the National Archives.
August 20, 1619: Africans Arrived at Point Comfort
The arrival of Africans at Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia is traditionally commemorated on August 20.
Approximately 20 Africans were brought to Virginia aboard the English privateer White Lion in late August 1619. The event became an important moment in the development of racialized slavery in English North America.
The date should be understood within a broader history. Africans were present in other parts of the Americas and North America before 1619, and historians continue to examine the status and experiences of the Africans who arrived in Virginia.
August 21, 1831: Nat Turner’s Rebellion Began
Nat Turner and a group of enslaved people began an uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 21, 1831.
Turner, an enslaved preacher, believed he had been called to lead people out of slavery. The rebellion became one of the most consequential uprisings by enslaved people in United States history.
Authorities responded with executions and widespread violence against Black residents. Southern lawmakers also imposed more restrictive laws designed to control the movement, education and religious activities of enslaved and free Black people.
Learn more from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
August 25, 1925: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Was Organized
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was organized in 1925 under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph.
Pullman porters performed demanding work while facing low wages, long hours and racial discrimination. Their union became a pioneering force in the Black labor movement and eventually secured a landmark collective-bargaining agreement.
The Brotherhood’s organizing helped connect economic justice, workers’ rights and the emerging civil-rights movement.
Explore the history of the Pullman porters through the National Park Service.
August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Died
Scholar, author and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois died in Ghana on August 27, 1963, one day before the March on Washington.
Du Bois was a co-founder of the NAACP and an influential advocate for civil rights, higher education and Pan-African unity. His writings examined race, democracy, economics and the experiences of Black Americans.
His death came as a new generation of activists prepared to gather in Washington to demand jobs, equality and freedom.
August 28, 1955: Emmett Till Was Murdered
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi on August 28, 1955.
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the courageous decision to hold an open-casket funeral. Images showing the brutality inflicted on her son were published by Black media outlets and seen around the world.
Till’s murder and the acquittal of the two white men charged with the crime helped galvanize a new generation of civil-rights activists.
Read Emmett Till’s story from the Smithsonian.
August 28, 1963: The March on Washington Took Place
Approximately 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.
The demonstration brought national attention to employment discrimination, segregation, voting rights and the need for comprehensive civil-rights legislation. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The march became one of the defining events of the Civil Rights Movement and helped build momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Explore the March on Washington through the National Park Service.
August 30, 1967: Thurgood Marshall Was Confirmed to the Supreme Court
The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on August 30, 1967.
Marshall became the first African American to serve on the nation’s highest court. Before joining the Supreme Court, he was a leading civil-rights attorney who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Marshall served on the Supreme Court from 1967 until 1991.
View the Senate’s historical record.
Why August 28 Is Especially Important in Black History
August 28 stands out as an exceptionally consequential date in African American history.
Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. Eight years later, the March on Washington brought approximately 250,000 people to the nation’s capital. W.E.B. Du Bois had died in Ghana just one day before the march.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has highlighted August 28 because of the number of major events connected to Black history that have occurred on that date.
Keep Learning About African American History
These anniversaries provide opportunities to learn about the people and movements that transformed the United States. They also remind us that progress resulted from sustained organizing, courage, creativity and sacrifice.
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#AfricanAmericanHistory #BarackObama #BlackHistory #BlackLaborHistory #CivilRightsMovement #DoRaleigh #EmmettTill #JesseOwens #MarchOnWashington #MarcusGarvey #NatTurner #News #RaleighHistory #ThurgoodMarshall #VotingRightsAct #WEBDuBois -
"To discuss what the decision in #LouisianaVCallais means for future #USelections and the long erosion of #votingRights protections, from the limitations of the 15th amendment to the evisceration of the 1965 #VotingRightsAct, Adam Shatz is joined by Mara Gay, a staff writer at the New York Times, and Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-long-history-of-black-voter-suppression-in-the-us
#USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #BlackHistory #civilRights #voterSuppression #racializedCommunities #justice #SCOTUS -
"To discuss what the decision in #LouisianaVCallais means for future #USelections and the long erosion of #votingRights protections, from the limitations of the 15th amendment to the evisceration of the 1965 #VotingRightsAct, Adam Shatz is joined by Mara Gay, a staff writer at the New York Times, and Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-long-history-of-black-voter-suppression-in-the-us
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"To discuss what the decision in #LouisianaVCallais means for future #USelections and the long erosion of #votingRights protections, from the limitations of the 15th amendment to the evisceration of the 1965 #VotingRightsAct, Adam Shatz is joined by Mara Gay, a staff writer at the New York Times, and Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-long-history-of-black-voter-suppression-in-the-us
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"To discuss what the decision in #LouisianaVCallais means for future #USelections and the long erosion of #votingRights protections, from the limitations of the 15th amendment to the evisceration of the 1965 #VotingRightsAct, Adam Shatz is joined by Mara Gay, a staff writer at the New York Times, and Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-long-history-of-black-voter-suppression-in-the-us
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"To discuss what the decision in #LouisianaVCallais means for future #USelections and the long erosion of #votingRights protections, from the limitations of the 15th amendment to the evisceration of the 1965 #VotingRightsAct, Adam Shatz is joined by Mara Gay, a staff writer at the New York Times, and Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-long-history-of-black-voter-suppression-in-the-us
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#democraticsocialism #lesseroftwoevils #socialsecurity #familyandmedicalleaveact #medicare #medicaid #CivilRightsActOf1960 #votingrightsact #minimumwage #overtimepay #chip #CivilRightsActOf1960 #affordablecareact #votingrightsact #violenceagainstwomenact #overtimepay #lillyledbetterfairpayact #unemploymentinsurance #inflationreductionact #peacecorps #RepectForMarriageAct #gibill #pactactforveterans #anticapitalism #antifascism
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https://www.europesays.com/people/145236/ John Roberts and his Corrupt Republican SCOTUS Majority Winning the Long Game: ‘BradCast’ 7/8/2026 #Accountability #BradBlogMediaAppearance #bradcast #cfpb #ClarenceThomas #CourtReform #DeptOfJustice #DonaldTrump #EJeanCarroll #Election2026 #ElectionReform #FCC #fec #FTC #gerrymandering/redistricting #Immigration #JohnRoberts #KochIndustries #kpfk #Republicans #RonaldReagan #ToddBlanche #USConstitution #USSenate #USSupremeCourt #VotingRightsAct #WilliamRehnquist
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https://www.europesays.com/people/107831/ The Roberts Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Nears Completion #Callais #Constitution #GeorgeWBush #JamesMadison #JohnCCalhoun #JohnRoberts #LouisianaVCallais #SamuelAlito #SupremeCourt #VotingRightsAct
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Since #SCOTUS’ April ruling, largely #white #Republican-led legislatures across the #South have moved to dismantle #Black political #power at stunning speed, breaking apart voting blocs at the urging of a failing president desperate to keep control of #Congress in this fall’s midterm #elections.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
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A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans
by Mara Gay
The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy.
#RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.qSCM.vEpY9cDXlL3Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Over the course of several months, #SCOTUS has had a hand in congressional maps in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Virginia & California. Most of those decisions have benefited the #Republican Party.
The Alabama case is also the latest “emergency” order tied to the court’s April decision on the #VotingRightsAct, in which a 6-3 majority gutted the ability of groups to bring claims of racial #discrimination under that 1965 landmark #law.
#redistricting #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump #ActivistCourt
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#ParolesDHistoire reçoit l'historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau pour parler de l'arrêt #LouisianaVCallais de la Cour suprême des É-U et de l'histoire du suprémacisme sudiste
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2026/05/20/431-une-histoire-du-supremacisme-sudiste-aux-etats-unis-avec-nicolas-martin-breteau/
#Reconstruction #JimCrow #droitsCiviques #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #luttesAfroAméricaines #VotingRightsAct #suprémacismeBlanc #BlackHistory #UShistory #histoireAméricaine #politiqueAméricaine #justice #USpol -
#ParolesDHistoire reçoit l'historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau pour parler de l'arrêt #LouisianaVCallais de la Cour suprême des É-U et de l'histoire du suprémacisme sudiste
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2026/05/20/431-une-histoire-du-supremacisme-sudiste-aux-etats-unis-avec-nicolas-martin-breteau/
#Reconstruction #JimCrow #droitsCiviques #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #luttesAfroAméricaines #VotingRightsAct #suprémacismeBlanc #BlackHistory #UShistory #histoireAméricaine #politiqueAméricaine #justice #USpol -
#ParolesDHistoire reçoit l'historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau pour parler de l'arrêt #LouisianaVCallais de la Cour suprême des É-U et de l'histoire du suprémacisme sudiste
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2026/05/20/431-une-histoire-du-supremacisme-sudiste-aux-etats-unis-avec-nicolas-martin-breteau/
#Reconstruction #JimCrow #droitsCiviques #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #luttesAfroAméricaines #VotingRightsAct #suprémacismeBlanc #BlackHistory #UShistory #histoireAméricaine #politiqueAméricaine #justice #USpol -
#ParolesDHistoire reçoit l'historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau pour parler de l'arrêt #LouisianaVCallais de la Cour suprême des É-U et de l'histoire du suprémacisme sudiste
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2026/05/20/431-une-histoire-du-supremacisme-sudiste-aux-etats-unis-avec-nicolas-martin-breteau/
#Reconstruction #JimCrow #droitsCiviques #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #luttesAfroAméricaines #VotingRightsAct #suprémacismeBlanc #BlackHistory #UShistory #histoireAméricaine #politiqueAméricaine #justice #USpol -
#ParolesDHistoire reçoit l'historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau pour parler de l'arrêt #LouisianaVCallais de la Cour suprême des É-U et de l'histoire du suprémacisme sudiste
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2026/05/20/431-une-histoire-du-supremacisme-sudiste-aux-etats-unis-avec-nicolas-martin-breteau/
#Reconstruction #JimCrow #droitsCiviques #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #luttesAfroAméricaines #VotingRightsAct #suprémacismeBlanc #BlackHistory #UShistory #histoireAméricaine #politiqueAméricaine #justice #USpol -
Supreme Court Breaks Another Election To Make Sure Black Voters Are Disenfranchised
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
Tennessee Republicans just voted to eliminate a majority Black district in Memphis. #votingrightsact #tennessee
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3mlc2ug3mws23
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The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts
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The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts
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How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act
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https://www.europesays.com/people/51299/ The Plot to Destroy the Voting Rights Act #1965VotingRightsAct #AlexanderVSouthCarolinaStateConferenceOfTheNAACP #BrnovichVDNC #CivilRights #ElenaKagan #JohnRoberts #LouisianaVCallais #MinorityVotingRights #RuchoVCommonCause #RuthBaderGinsburg #SamuelAlito #ShelbyCountyVHolder #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct
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So now what? Time to see if white leftists have the backbone or just the rhetoric. Your choices helped create this. We warned you. You dismissed it.
Black voters: rights under attack. No excuses. Vote like your freedom is on the line, because it is.
#LouisianaVCallais #VotingRightsAct #VoterSuppression #CivilRights #BlackVotersMatter #JimCrow2 #StayWoke -
So now what? Time to see if white leftists have the backbone or just the rhetoric. Your choices helped create this. We warned you. You dismissed it.
Black voters: rights under attack. No excuses. Vote like your freedom is on the line, because it is.
#LouisianaVCallais #VotingRightsAct #VoterSuppression #CivilRights #BlackVotersMatter #JimCrow2 #StayWoke -
So now what? Time to see if white leftists have the backbone or just the rhetoric. Your choices helped create this. We warned you. You dismissed it.
Black voters: rights under attack. No excuses. Vote like your freedom is on the line, because it is.
#LouisianaVCallais #VotingRightsAct #VoterSuppression #CivilRights #BlackVotersMatter #JimCrow2 #StayWoke -
So now what? Time to see if white leftists have the backbone or just the rhetoric. Your choices helped create this. We warned you. You dismissed it.
Black voters: rights under attack. No excuses. Vote like your freedom is on the line, because it is.
#LouisianaVCallais #VotingRightsAct #VoterSuppression #CivilRights #BlackVotersMatter #JimCrow2 #StayWoke -
So now what? Time to see if white leftists have the backbone or just the rhetoric. Your choices helped create this. We warned you. You dismissed it.
Black voters: rights under attack. No excuses. Vote like your freedom is on the line, because it is.
#LouisianaVCallais #VotingRightsAct #VoterSuppression #CivilRights #BlackVotersMatter #JimCrow2 #StayWoke -
Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.
#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism
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This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.
#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism
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This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.
#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism
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This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.
#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism
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This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.
#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116489299784659411
Today the Roberts Court spits on graves of hundreds of thousands who died for the idea that black people are people.
The Civil War really was a thing.
But Uncle #ClarenceThomas won't be happy until he can't vote.
#JohnRoberts #RobertsCourt #SCOTUS #crowned #King #OurPutin #VotingRightsAct #VRA #GOP #KKK #DEI #fascist #USA #Constitution #Alito #Kavanaugh #ComeyBarrett #Gorsuch #SupremeCourt #voting #civil #rights -
Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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The 1965 #VotingRightsAct, the #centerpiece legislation of the #CivilRights Movement, succeeded in opening the ballot box to #Black Americans & reducing persistent racial #discrimination in voting. Nearly 70 of the 435 congressional districts are protected by #Section2, #ElectionLaw expert Nicholas Stephanopoulos has estimated.
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Conservative SCOTUS justices appear skeptical about race-based redistricting
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Weird Maps Win Elections – [USA] Gerrymandering Explained [Map Men]
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https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si=cNufts2Aa42QL6ZY <-- shared video
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[an excellent description of gerrymandering of political districts in the USA]
“Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?...”
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