National Urban League Launches Civic Engagement Campaign
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 12, 2018) – Invoking the memory of civil rights martyrs like Medgar Evers and Jimmy Lee Jackson, National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today announced a nationwide voter engagement and education campaign, “Enough is Enough. VOTE!”.”
“It’s no coincidence that a wave of racially-discriminatory voter suppression laws were enacted across the country after Black voter participation rates exceeded the white rate in 2008 and 2012,” Morial said. “We have to counteract these efforts with everything we have – not just to honor the past, and those who died for our vote, but to secure a future for ourselves and our children.”
Morial announced the campaign during a Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference panel discussion entitled “Transforming Moments into Movements: Mobilizing the Black Community for Sustainable Social Change.”
A centerpiece of the campaign is the NUL Civic Action Center, where visitors can register to vote, check and verify their voter registration status, find their polling locations and seek out information on candidates. The Action Center can be found at www.enoughisenoughvote.org.
The National Urban League is a premier partner for National Voter Registration Day, which is September 25.
Morial also noted that get-out-the-vote events are planned, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Racial Equity Anchor Group, for the following locations and dates:
- Cleveland, October 6-7
- Detroit, October 13-14
- Philadelphia, October 20-21
- Atlanta, October 27-28
Other partners in the campaign are When We All Vote, Lyft, and Rock the Vote.
National Urban League also is a longtime partner of the national, nonpartisan Election Protection coalition, which works year-round to ensure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote and have that vote count. Other partners
“We are seeing the advances of the last 50 years being rolled back right before our eyes,” Morial said. “Access to health care, educational opportunity, fair housing, criminal justice reform – all these are at risk, and our only means of protecting our rights is to vote. Our future depends upon our vote.”
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202-629-5750 | katterbury@nul.org
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