Jacob OglesMarch 28, 2024
9min0
A Judge wrote that DeSantis 'drew, proposed, and submitted the Enacted Map with race as a motivating factor.'
Tag: 15th Amendment
Jacob OglesMarch 28, 2024
Guest AuthorJune 10, 2020
7min1179
The war for voting rights is long and ongoing.
Guest AuthorOctober 10, 2018
9min572
There is a direct link from the work of my namesake and relative Susan B. Anthony, who fought for a woman’s right to vote in the mid-1800s, and the modern-day suffragists urging us to pass Amendment 4 on the ballot this November in Florida. Growing up, I was told the stories of Anthony and Lucy […]
Peter SchorschApril 8, 201510min169
John Morgan is a serious person. He certainly spent serious money trying to pass Amendment 2 in 2014. He sounds serious, sometimes even emphatic. And sometimes sounding serious is all one needs to get their friends and enemies to act the way they want them too. At least that’s what Morgan hopes. Elected officials pay […]
Darryl PaulsonSeptember 19, 20135min178
Fifth in a series The civil rights movement and the passage of federal laws such as the Voting Rights Act ended the major hurdles to black voting in Florida and the South. Black voter registration soared and, with the passage of time, hundreds of blacks in Florida would be elected to political office. The election […]