Voting Rights Archives

Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the 26th Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses

Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Jonathan Becker and Yael Bromberg. 2025. 304 pages.
Uses the history of the 26th Amendment and the ongoing fight to promote and defend youth voting rights as a prism through which to teach the history of the struggle for the fundamental right to vote in the United States.

Jan. 25, 1972: Shirley Chisholm Began Historic Campaign for President

Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, opened her historic campaign for President.

Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits to Classrooms

To contribute to national efforts to get out the vote and defend the elections, we encourage middle and high school teachers to focus on voting rights and the Constitution in September and October. We ask for your help to send free voting rights toolkits to educators nationwide.

Reading the World: Paulo Freire in Angicos

Film. Directed by Catherine Murphy and Iris de Oliveira. 2025. 70 minutes.
Tells the story of an experimental adult education project in Northeastern Brazil led by Paulo Freire that enabled hundreds of rural people to read, write, and begin to vote.

Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the 26th Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses

Jan. 25, 1972: Shirley Chisholm Began Historic Campaign for President

Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits to Classrooms

Reading the World: Paulo Freire in Angicos

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