March 18, 2021
About This Episode
In the 2020 election, the United States saw the highest voter turnout in decades, with two-thirds of eligible voters casting ballots. In red states that turned purple or even blue, this increase in turn out was due in part to years of voter mobilization to bring more Black and brown voters - who have been historically disenfranchised - to the polls.
In this episode, we speak with one of the people who has been on the front lines of that movement - Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight and Fair Count - and take a brief look at the state of voting in the Kennedy era.
View the transcript for this episode.
What We Talked About
- Revisit our 60/20 episode Unfinished Business on race and the 1960 Campaign.
- Read or listen to CORE founder James Farmer's oral history interview.
- Watch a past JFK Library Forum with Stacey Abrams.
- Teachers: view a lesson plan on voting rights in 1963.