Youth Rally Capitol Hill for Renewal of the Voting Rights Act

“Vote or Die” became a popular slogan during the 2004 elections when Puff Daddy, Russell Simmons, and Nelly donned the slogan on T-shirts to persuade youth to vote. With voting as the theme for the 97th Annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) last week, NAACP organizers led a throng of youth to Capitol Hill to help ensure that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would get passed in the Senate.

Joined by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Hillary Shelton, Julian Bond, and Bruce S. Gordon convened a meeting at the Washington Convention Center on the eve of the Senate vote on the extension of the Voting Rights Act provisions set to expire next year. The leaders rallied a crowd, prepared to load several chartered buses going to Capitol Hill to make certain that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was renewed by the Senators working on Capitol Hill this session, a delegation that included some five buses full of youth delegates.

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