Brochure and Power Point

Articles• Does Voting Actually Matter? Tricia Ellis-Christensen www.wisegeek.com• Why People Don’t Vote Uttara Manohar Buzzle.com• Why Don’t Americans Vote? Carlton Kendrick, Ed.M. LCSW FamilyEducation.com• The Universal Road to Suffrage Oregon Student Mock Election 2006 PPT

Produced by the League of Women Voters of Oregon Education Fund

www.lwvor.org/documents/RoadtoSuffrage.ppt• Top 10 Reasons People Don’t Vote San Antonio Apartment Living 11/29/08• Who Votes, Who Doesn’t and Why The Pew Research Center for the People and the • Press 10/18/06• Why People Don’t VOTE Trevor Hamm The Fresh Express – The Pulse of Young Black

America 11/02/10• The Federal Election Commission• African American Women and the Suffrage Movement Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the

Southern Poverty Law Center/Published on Teaching Tolerance www.tolerance.org• Why Americans Don’t Vote and How That Might Change Author John Dean• Find Law Columnist 11/8/2000, Special to CNN Interactive

Sources & Credits

Frequently Asked Questions

VA State Board of Elections

• The First Vote Wikipedia/Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution• Danville Protest 1963 Danville Register Newspaper, Photograph by Leon Townsend• MLK “Can’t Wait” Wikipedia/Birmingham Campaign• “Protect Her Future” NAACP Voter Registration Poster • LBJ & African American Leaders at the Signing Ceremony of 1965 Voter Rights Act Wikipedia/Voting Rights Act• Evelyn T. Butts Wikipedia/Evelyn Butts; Findagrave.com

Power Point • 2008 – Norfolk, VA African American Election Day Turnout Posted 11/04/10 www.blackwomensroundtable.com• “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” NAACP Photo• Mid 2oth Century White/Colored drinking station Wikipedia/Jim Crow Laws • The First Vote Lithograph Wikipedia/Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution• “Jim Crow is Dead” http://kaystreet.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/citschool.jpg• Bomb wreckage Wikipedia/Freedom Rider Violence• Suffrage march –black woman in back of line http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f1f5/votesWomen.jpg• Ida B. Wells Wikipedia/Ida B. Wells• 1912 Suffrage March Albany, New York http://www.albany.edu• Native Americans at the ballot box http://2.bp.blogspot.com• Burning Freedom Riders Bus 1961 Anniston Star Newspaper, Photograph by Joseph Posliglione • LBJ & African American Leaders at the Signing Ceremony of 1965 Voter Rights Act Wikipedia/Voting Rights Act• “Reasons Why I Should …” http://gregcookland.com/journal/uploaded_images/picHendersonAntiVietnamWarSeriesNY68• “VOTE” www.crmvet.org/crmpics/vote/jpg• “NO VOTE” www.prisonpolicy.org/images.crisis_inside_spread_joined_400w.jpg• Whitney M. Young, Jr Wikipedia/Whitney M. Young, Jr

Brochure• “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” NAACP Photo• 1963 MLK in Birimingham jail Photo Credit: Bettman/Corbis• Marian Wright Edelman America's Cradle to Prison summit 10/24/07 www.blacksgiveback.com• Empty voter stations – Grace Lutheran Church, Hartford, Connecticut www.the40yearplan.com

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