Civil Rights Marchers FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010

Alabama, 1965
In commemoration of the 45th Anniversary
of the “Bloody Sunday” March

the
NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
and
National Voting Rights
Museum and Institute

present

COUNT ON CHANGE IN 2010:

The March That Changed America... Ensuring a Complete African-American
Count In the 2010 Census
Continues 45 Years Later. 10:00-11:00 AM

and

“POST-RACIAL” AMERICA? NOT YET.

Why the Fight for Voting Rights Continues:
Reflections on the 45th Anniversary
of the Voting Rights Act
11:00-12:15 PM

WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

LDF Attorneys 3000 EARL GOODWIN PARKWAY
at the Supreme Court, 2009 SELMA, ALABAMA
 Two Panels Presented By
THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC.
and
THE NATIONAL VOTING RIGHTS MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE

COUNT ON CHANGE IN 2010 “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA? NOT YET.

A complete count in the 2010 Census is critical to the African-
American community. The distribution of political power at every
level of government depends on the full inclusion of African
Americans in the Census.
The 2000 Census completely missed 628,000 African Americans.
Unfortunately, the African-American community is once again at risk
of an undercount in the 2010 Census, as many African Americans
live in areas deemed “hard to count” by the Census Bureau and
have disproportionately been victims of the foreclosure crisis and
hurricane displacement.
Please join us for a discussion about how to empower yourself
and strengthen your community by ensuring complete African-
American inclusion in the 2010 Census.
Amid the excitement of President Barack Obama’s election, “post-
racial” has become a familiar buzzword, and some have asserted that
the work of the Voting Rights Movement is now complete. Indeed, in
a constitutional challenge that reached the Supreme Court last year,
a small Texas district argued that the election of President Obama
rendered the protections of the Voting Rights Act unnecessary. The
Supreme Court rejected the invitation to find the Voting Rights Act
unconstitutional.
This panel will confront the “post-racial” myth by examining both the
historical justifications and continuing need for the protections of the
Voting Rights Act.

www.countonchange2010.org

Cover photos courtesy of Estate of James Karales and Nina Perales