James Madison Center for Civic Engagement: Democracy Matters

For Constitution Day 2021 and to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, we talk with Carolyn Quilloin Coleman who started her activism work as a teenager protesting segregation in Savannah, Georgia. In April 1969, she organized the NAACP-sponsored Youth Mobilization conference in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together 2,000 young people from 33 states to lobby Congress in support of youth voting rights. See the show notes with links mentioned in this episode at https://j.mu/news/civic/2021/09-06-democracy-matters-episode-79.shtml