Congress of Racial Equality

Black Voters Matter holds Freedom Ride across the South to promote voting rights

June 17, 2021 - This Juneteenth, Black Voters Matter will launch a bus tour through Southern states marking the 60th anniversary of the original Freedom Rides that successfully challenged segregation. The tour will promote the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and drive home the importance of confronting voter suppression.

Laura Dixie: Remembering a 'Mother of the Movement'

By Paul Ortiz

December 6, 2017 - Her work as an organizer in Tallahassee, Florida, is a testament to the oft-forgotten role of African-American working-class people — especially women — in the making of the modern civil rights movement in the South.

Nissan Workers in Mississippi build Southern support for union drive

By Rebekah Barber

January 27, 2017 - Since 2005, Nissan workers in Canton, Mississippi — a city with deep roots in the civil rights movement — have been fighting for the right to unionize. This week they are taking their cause across the South with days of action in at least five cities.

Congress of Racial Equality

Black Voters Matter holds Freedom Ride across the South to promote voting rights

Laura Dixie: Remembering a 'Mother of the Movement'

Nissan Workers in Mississippi build Southern support for union drive

We are building a better South.