A History Lesson for Non-Voters

We must vote because they could not.

Aundra Willis Carrasco
Nov 6 · 7 min read

Monumental courage under unrelenting racial oppression.

1950s and 1960s voting rights activists. They marched and they bled and they died for the right to vote.

As a member of a certain generation, one who lived through the ’50s and ’60s and took part in many voting rights demonstrations, I have been shocked by some of the conversations on social media among non-voters with such a…

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Aundra Willis Carrasco

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Writer, Essayist, Blogger, Curious Social Observer. Lover of solitude. Born on Emily Dickinson’s birthday. E-Mail me here: aundra.willis@gmail.com

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