"Vote suppression has a long and ugly history in the United States, and over the last two decades, it has resurfaced with a vengeance. Through research, lawsuits, and advocacy, the Brennan Center is fighting vote suppression on every front."

League of Women Voters' site.
" We protect every American’s right to vote, challenging those who seek to restrict Black, brown, female, disabled, and other Americans from making their voices heard in our democracy."

National Low Income Housing Coalition's article on a history of voter suppression

Latest information on ACLU's activities to combat voter suppression

Includes how to guides, voting rights by state, information about the SPLC Voting Rights Practice Group and more.

Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Chronology of Fannie Lou Hamer’s activist career

"Purpose:
Our goal is to increase power in our communities. Effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny."

League of Latin American Citizens information on voting.

"In order to fully participate in our democracy, Asian Americans must exercise the right to vote in local, state, and national elections. Unfortunately, racial discrimination in voting still exists. We work to eliminate discriminatory barriers to voting and to increase access to the ballot for all voters."

Hispanic Federation information site supporting voter registration and Movimiento Hispano

"The aims and objectives of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement shall be to... promote voter registration, voter education, voter protection, and voter mobilization.”

Site highlights Highlights Native American Rights Fund's work to protect Native American voting rights.

Federal election laws can help protect your voting rights and the election process. Learn about limits on campaign contributions, accessibility laws for voters with disabilities or language barriers, and more.

"Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships."

Campaign Legal Center provides a variety of information on voting and elections.

"Based on Fair Elections Center’s years of successful work to remove barriers to voting and improve election administration nationwide, Every Year, Every Vote calls on policymakers, election administrators and voting rights advocates to prioritize key investments not just during presidential election years, but also in non-federal election years, to continually increase voter participation in each election cycle."

Information on modern day voter suppression efforts.

Describes the Committee's work to protect and defend the right to vote, and to ensure that the right is afforded equally to all.

"NAACP, with the help of volunteers and partners, works to make sure Black voters are engaged and encouraged to vote in every election."

"Voter ID laws silence millions of Americans ...
VoteRiders describes how they provide voter ID assistance so that every American can cast a ballot that counts."

"Women in America first collectively organized in 1848 at the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY to fight for suffrage (or voting rights). Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the convention sparked the women’s suffrage movement. Not everyone followed the same path in fighting for women's equal access to the vote, and the history of the suffrage movement is one of disagreements as well as cooperation."

This is the Pennsylvania state subsite of the overall 19th Amendment resource listed above.

"Rarely acknowledged for their integral part in the struggle for the vote, a feisty contingent of Pittsburgh women used their intelligence, wits and endurance to mount a fierce campaign against forces that employed all their might to deny them the vote."

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia's essays on women's suffrage in the Philadelphia region. By Tamara Gaskell

Provided by the Voting Rights Alliance

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center provides a brief history of voter suppression and highlights modern voter suppression methods. This site provides recommendations on how to prepare and protect your rights.

Votes for Women is a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania website published to celebrate the women's suffrage centennial in 2019-20.