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Summit prepares college students for advancing 2020 voter participation
Andrew’s legacy and passion for equality now lives on through the organization’s Vote Everywhere program. The five-day summit provides student participants with training, strategies and tools needed to advance voter participation on their college campuses with the 2020 elections approaching.
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These voters outnumber baby boomers. What college students want to do in 2020.
Students from New Jersey and as far away as Louisiana gathered at Montclair State University this week for a 5-day summit to undergo training needed to increase civic engagement on their campuses in preparation of the upcoming 2020 election, learning from some of the country’s most insightful speakers and visionaries.
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Florida Lawmakers Aim To Restrict Early Voting Locations Based On Parking Availability
Florida lawmakers are on the verge of enacting a measure that would require election officials to determine early voting sites have a “sufficient” amount of accessible parking, a move civil rights groups say will make it harder to vote early on college campuses.
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College students from across the country strategize solutions for voter apathy
About 150 students on Thursday discussed the widespread distrust about the electoral process on their campuses — from Iowa to Illinois to Ohio to New Jersey — at the 2019 National Civic Leadership Training Summit, a five-day event that takes place through Sunday at Montclair State University.
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A new voting issue, or old-fashioned GOP voter suppression?
The case was brought by the League of Women Voters of Florida and Andrew Goodman Foundation on behalf of six students, five at UF and one at Florida State. After they won, the state followed Walker’s orders, and about 60,000 college students cast ballots at campus voting sites last fall for the first time.
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Three civil rights workers were missing. Sen. Eastland said it was fake news.
Sen. James O. Eastland told President Lyndon B. Johnson it was fake news. When Johnson asked Senator Eastland what should do about the three men missing, Sen. Eastland replied, "Well, I don't know. I don't believe there's three missing. I believe it's a publicity stunt."
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Spring 2019 Roundup: 4 Snapshots from the Vote Everywhere Network
The Spring 2019 semester was a busy time for the Vote Everywhere network. In addition to engaging more than 15,000 students with on and off campus activities, our Ambassadors used promising practices to expand access to the ballot and received numerous awards for their outstanding work.
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Oxford Girl Scout Presents Her Mural Honoring Three Slain Civil Rights Workers of 1964 Freedom Summer
Cope, a rising senior at Talawanda High School, received a $1,000 grant from the E. W. Smith Family Charitable Trust to create the mural as a project for her Gold award from the Girl Scouts of America. The mural honors three civil rights volunteers who trained in Oxford during the Freedom Summer of 1964 and were murdered in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan a few weeks later as they tried to register voters there.
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How a large-scale effort to register black voters led to a crackdown in Tennessee
The Andrew Goodman Foundation's Managing Director Maxim Thorne weighs in on Tennessee's new voter suppression law in an article for the Washington Post.
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The Andrew Goodman Foundation Takes Further Legal Action Against Tennessee for Its Voter Suppression Law
The Andrew Goodman Foundation and other voting rights organizations took further legal action against Tennessee's new restrictive voting law by filing a "Notice of Noncompliance."
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