Protect the Right to Vote
On this day in 1963, approximately 250,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the March on Washington. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they were introduced to a fiery young activist from Alabama named John Lewis and witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. Our Civil Rights heroes' relentless pursuit of freedom and equality paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But now, our right to vote is once again under threat.
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedience. She rightly refused to give up her seat on a public bus for a white passenger. That moment is etched in history as it was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott ended after 13 months, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.