Beautiful People,
Ella Baker said it and Sweet Honey In The Rock sang it!
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest…..To me young people come first. They have the courage where we fail. And if I can but shed some light as they carry us through the gale.”
Thank You Carol Maillard (Founding Member Sweet Honey In The Rock) and All who affirm believe and support the importance of VOTING RIGHTS and EQUALITY for All. The work of the Andrew Goodman Foundation
continues to shine a light, educate and empower young people at HBCUs and universities across the the United States and the World.
Melony 👑❤️🐢👑
aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈
From the Andrew Goodman Foundation Website…
Andy’s Story…
An American Icon Who Dreamed of Justice.
In May of 1964, the historic Civil Rights Act was under attack by segregationists in Congress. In a school paper, Andrew Goodman wrote, “the Senators could not persist in this polite debate over the future dignity of a human race if the white Northerners were not so shockingly apathetic.”
Within days of writing those words, Andrew asked for his parents’ permission to join Freedom Summer, a voter registration project aimed at registering Black Americans to vote in Mississippi.
On Andy’s first day, he and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. The story of these three young men struck a public chord that contributed to the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“I am one of the many who stand on the shoulders of giants like Andy. His death forever changed our Nation, and in his example, we are reminded of the difference we each can make when we summon up the courage to lift up the lives of others.” President Barack Obama
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We’re Uplifting Young Voices in Our Democracy. Young people aged 18-29 are one of the most underrepresented voter groups in the US — yet their values have the power to transform our nation.
The Andrew Goodman Foundation works to make young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy. We support youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on campuses across the country with mini-grants to select institutions of higher learning and other financial assistance to student leaders.
Join us as we inspire more young people to pursue social change work, activate important lessons of the past, and sustain today’s effective social action.
