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African-American Voting Rights articles on Democracy Chronicles

This is our collection of African-American voting rights related articles. Few ongoing crisis in American elections have more importance to the integrity of the democracy than the imperative of ensuring voting rights for African-Americans. Also see Democracy Chronicles articles on African-Americans and Democracy, the Civil Rights Era, Minority Voting, and our unfortunate category: Racism.

Harlem Rally for Jailed Eric Garner Cameraman

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A small crowd of around 15 people were at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell in Harlem at 1pm today for a last minute rally and press conference for Ramsey Orta, 22, the man who filmed NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo placing an illegal, fatal chokehold on unarmed Eric Garner

Selma Organizer Refuses to March With George Bush

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Diane Nash, civil rights activist and Selma organizer who led the original march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scheduled to march on Saturday, March 7th but refused at the last minute when she saw George W. Bush was to help lead the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday

GALLERY: From Selma 1965 to Brooklyn Bridge 2015

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“Selma is everywhere,” Attorney Norman Siegel told me prior to the march. “The racial injustice that occurred in Selma in 1965, unfortunately, is still present in various forms all across America including in New York City”.