Attention Quote by Mike Espy

We have to create a coalition of black voters and white voters all over Mississippi who believe in vision of a more modern Mississippi.

— Mike Espy

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

We have to do what they did in Alabama, which is a data-centric campaign that identifies black voters that haven't voted in a while…

— Mike Espy

After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office up and…

— Mike Espy

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

— Mike Espy

The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart.…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their…

— Jonathan Capehart

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures…

— Michelle Alexander

It's no secret that Mississippians - especially Black Mississippians - are overlooked. We are overlooked by Washington, by the Democratic Party, by the media,…

— Mike Espy