Call to Action Summary

SUMMARY

COLLINS SIX-POINT PLAN FOR VOTER REGISTRATION, EDUCATION, AND OTHER ACTION

I. Voter Registration

  1. Contact six or more people to make sure they are registered to vote and encourage them to vote at every election. If they are not registered, encourage them to register within the next thirty days and to vote at every election.   Ask each to contact six persons with the same message; each person should ask everyone contacted to contact six persons.
  2. Take this same message to your church or other place of worship.
  3. Make this announcement at every gathering of people you attend.

II. Education

  1. Contact young people and help them to understand the importance of getting a good education.
  2. Tell our youth they must be educated in order to fully exercise their citizenship rights.
  3. Tell your children, grandchildren, and others to remember who they are, to remember those who made it possible for them to get to where they are, etc.
  4. Tell your children, grandchildren, and others to read important historical documents: for example, the Emancipation Proclamation, Dr. King’s April 16, 1963“Letter From A Birmingham Jail,” and the entire text of Dr. King’s August 28, 1963 “Bad Check–I Have A Dream—Let Freedom Ring—Free At Last” Speech.
  5. Encourage your children, grandchildren, and others to do their own research on important historical events: for example—the “Big Six” and the women involved in the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom.

III. Other Action

  1. Contact talk shows and other social media to disseminate appropriate information.
  2. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and others ask us to contact our Congressmen and Senators and urge them to pass legislation expeditiously to update the coverage formula in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. As of May 1, 2014, an Amendment has been introduced; a committee hearing and strengthening the bill is necessary. (This is necessitated by the recent Supreme Court decision striking down Section 4 of the Act.)
  3. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and others ask that we let them know of proposed voting changes planned for our communities.
  4. The National Bar Association asks that you contact your Congressmen and Senators and urge them to support the End Racial Profiling Act of 2013.
  5. Contact friends, relatives and acquaintances to encourage them to use their telephone conversations to discuss positive, constructive, worthwhile actions that will advance the objectives we are discussing.
  6. Please take whatever additional actions you deem appropriate.

 

Note: For the full plan, please [ click here ]