Recent gerrymandering efforts in Louisiana and Tennessee, along with a Supreme Court decision that dealt another major blow to the Voting Rights Act, energized thousands to march in the same spaces that led to the VRA’s first passage.
Under the Alabama sun, shouts and chants could be heard for miles, all in the name of the power of the Black vote.
Weeks after the monumental Louisiana vs. Callais decision that gutted more parts of the Voting Rights Act, thousands descended upon Alabama’s state capitol, as well as Selma, for the “All Roads Lead To The South” rally to drum up awareness of the disenfranchisement of Black voters in neighboring southern states such as Tennessee and Florida…