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Best of 2021: The 26th Amendment at 50: Racial Justice and Youth Political Power | Democracy Matters
Episode 51
Published 4 years, 3 months ago
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We continue our Best of 2021 episodes with an episode from the Democracy Matters podcast.
For Constitution Day 2021 and to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, we talk with Carolyn Quilloin Coleman who started her activism work as a teenager protesting segregation in Savannah, Georgia. In April 1969, she organized the NAACP-sponsored Youth Mobilization conference in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together 2,000 young people from 33 states to lobby Congress in support of youth voting rights.
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