Welcome to the South, Where Voter Suppression Is Alive and Well

We need grassroots efforts to counteract red states that impose white supermajority rule on Black citizens

Hal H. Harris
GEN
Published in
6 min readOct 30, 2020

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Black churches in Germantown push for black voting power in Philadelphia, PA on October 27, 2020.
Photo: Cory Clark/NurPhoto/Getty Images

I geared up to vote in person this year because, no matter what, I needed my vote to count in the 2020 presidential election. I researched my state’s laws on election attire ahead…

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Hal H. Harris
GEN
Writer for

Black on Both Sides. Medium Writers Challenge Winner. The founder of Established in 1865. I Tweet @Established1865. E-mail is hal.harris@est1865.com.