Hundreds of people gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities.
Hundreds of people gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev.
Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities.
That march, an inflection point in the Civil Rights Movement, came at a fraught moment, when economic headwinds, civil unrest, political division and the Vietnam War bitterly divided Americans.
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Hundreds of people gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities. That march, an inflection point in the Civil Rights Movement, came at a fraught moment, when economic headwinds, civil unrest, political division and the Vietnam War bitterly divided Americans.
Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, echoing the Rev.
Supreme Court's landmark April decision in Louisiana v. Some call it a 'very dangerous moment in American history' Friday's event harkened back to King Jr.'s historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, when more than 200,000 people gathered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.
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