Grassroots Group Launches Voting Rights Project | WABE 90.1 FM

A grassroots organization kicked off a nationwide campaign called the Voting Rights Project in Atlanta Wednesday. The effort is aimed at undoing voter identification laws in several states, including Georgia.

The group, called American Values First, is comprised of state lawmakers from across the U.S. and civil rights advocates. Civil rights icon Rev. Joseph Lowery told the crowd almost 50 years after the March on Washington, he feels like he’s still fighting the same battle.

“Somewhere in the 1980s, I wrote a speech called ‘Everything Has Changed and Nothing Has Changed.’” Lowery said. “I was looking the other day; I was trying to find it because I’m gonna preach it again.”

Afterwards, Lowery said the country has progressed in some areas, but regressed in others.

“We didn’t have one or two congressmen,” he said. “Now, we’ve got the president. And everything’s changed. Yet, these thirty-some states that want to turn back the clock, nothing’s changed. So, that’s the paradox.”

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