Today’s young voters can fuse movement activism with voting power in a way we haven’t seen in the past.
,” explained Maddie Billet, a 20-year-old Pennsylvanian who voted Democratic. “We were born into a world where the environment is crumbling, democracy is dying, bigotry is becoming the norm, and we’re angry about it.”. Yet, unlike earlier youth activists, Gen Z has connected the dots between movement insurgency and voter mobilization. That could be a game changer.
These tactics, in tandem with the rise of television, exposed the violence of segregationists, even against children, for a national audience. And that exposure was pivotal in shifting public opinion on Black civil rights, helping to fuel dramatic legislative breakthroughs with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. SNCC activists also pressed to open the Democratic Party to greater racial diversity, registering record numbers of Black voters.
Despite Celler’s continued power, efforts to lower the voting age gained fresh momentum in the 1960s when the draft age reemerged as a flash point during the Vietnam War, prompting baby boomers to form organizations like Let Us Vote. By 1970, lowering the voting age became a
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