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For Immediate Release
Contact:

Don Owens, dowens@lawyerscommittee.org, c. (202) 934-1880 
Marc Banks, NAACP, dbanks@naacpnet.org, (443) 608-4073 
Lon Walls, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, lwalls@wallscomm.com, (301) 996-1669 
Phoebe Plagens, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, pplagens@naacpldf.org, (212) 965-2235 
Teresa Candori, National Urban League, tcandori@nul.org, (212) 558-5362

National Black Civil Rights Groups to Gather Ahead of Expected Push to Vote on Election Day 2020

Black leaders will provide updates for increased election participation and voting that is free from harassment or disenfranchisement.

WASHINGTON

Leaders of some of the nation's largest and longest-tenured civil rights and Black empowerment organizations will gather on Friday, Oct. 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, for a telephone press conference to discuss how they are mobilizing voters in states and what to expect on Election Day in communities nationwide.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP, National Urban League, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation have all been on the frontlines of fighting voter suppression while encouraging Black people and other communities of color to get involved in the election process and express their voices at the ballot box.

WHO: Kristen Clarke, president and executive director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Melanie Campbell, president/CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO, NAACP
Marc Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League

WHEN: Friday, Oct. 30, at 11:00 a.m. EDT

WHERE: (877) 876-9173

Verbal Conference ID: "BLACK VOTERS"

The Lawyers' Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today.

(202) 662-8600