Can Ferguson Swing the Election?

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Low African American voter turnout helped create Ferguson’s mostly white government. Black leaders nationwide are using that fact to get their constituents to the polls.

Published Oct. 26 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/10/26/can-ferguson-swing-the-election/141025-dubois-black-vote-tease_yif9bc — Larry Downing/Reuters

For many African Americans, this is shaping up to be the Ferguson Election.

Around the country, black voters are being mobilized to vote in the 2014 midterms with the argument that the death of Michael Brown resulted, in part, from lack of black civic participation.

Joshua DuBois

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Can Ferguson Swing the Election?

Low African American voter turnout helped create Ferguson’s mostly white government. Black leaders nationwide are using that fact to get their constituents to the polls.

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Joshua DuBois