09/15/2026
Everyone should vote! It’s one of the greatest freedoms we have - people have fought and died to protect it!
Make today’s National Voter Registration Day count by registering or taking someone else to get registered today. Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents in the United States. Yet the state held the highest number of Black lawmakers in the state legislature during the Reconstruction Era, in the 1870s. That was shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation and before white supremacist violence, and later the 1890 constitution dismantled those gains.
Those facts paint a picture of the major setback caused by extreme intimidation. It was literally over a century ago, but the repercussions still linger. Race isn’t the goal, but representation does matter.
Trying to register was scary then; seeing what happens when you don’t vote is scary now. Today, you won’t lose your job or your life if you register to vote. Give an honorary thank you to those who were deprived by simply doing what many of them couldn’t.
