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Into America

The Power of the Black Vote: Creating A New South

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How Georgia’s HBCU students are turning this red state blue.

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This week marks the final stop of our HBCU tour on the power of the Black Folk.

0:14.1

We're in the Black Mecca, Atlanta, home of three of the most prestigious historically

0:19.3

Black colleges and universities, Spellman, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta.

0:26.9

We're listening now to Clark's mighty marching panthers.

0:36.9

Throughout our series, we've spoken with energized students across the South about the

0:41.7

political issues that matter most of them, like student loan debt, climate change, reproductive

0:47.6

rights, and education.

0:49.6

Now, it's time to talk about the true power of the young Black Folk.

0:56.7

And with less than a month until the midterms, what better place to end our series than

1:01.8

in a place that has played such a pivotal role in the fight for voting rights?

1:06.6

More than the cane, Jr. inspired me to find a way to get it in a way.

1:12.0

And I got in trouble.

1:13.8

Good trouble.

1:15.6

As a congressman from Georgia, the late John Lewis spent years working to strengthen the

1:20.8

Voting Rights Act.

1:22.2

He was a college student himself when he became a founding member of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent

1:28.2

Coordinating Committee.

1:29.9

We're marching today to dramatize to the nation and dramatize to the world.

1:34.4

There are hundreds and thousands of Negro citizens, particularly here in the Black Folk

1:39.4

area, the Nye Direct to Vote.

1:43.3

Everybody on my grandmother's side went to a HBCU.

1:47.2

That's Janaya Henry, a senior at Clark Atlanta University.

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