Ellen Weintraub

Same-day registration. Mail-in voting. Voter fraud. Foreign interference. These are the words we’re hearing as the November election approaches.  As we take time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights this week, it’s important to acknowledge women who today are working to ensure elections remain free and fair.  …

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was an American civil rights activist who first learned she had the right to vote in 1962, more than 40 years after passage of the 19th Amendment.  Her courageous fight to register to vote in Montgomery County, Mississippi led to a lifetime of civil rights work that …

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