Rallying to Restore Voting Rights Act

(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)

The APWU joined the NAACP, Democracy Initiative, and other labor and activist groups in Upper Senate Park on Sept. 16 for a rally to restore the Voting Rights Act. 

In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted key components of the 1965 law and, by doing so, eliminated the safeguards that prevent states with a history of voter discrimination from enacting harmful election laws.

The rally was the culmination of the NAACP’s “America’s Journey for Justice” – an 860-mile march from Selma, AL, to Washington, DC, that began on Aug. 1.