HBCU Students Turn Out to Vote in the Midterms

Students and young people across the country—especially those attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)—voted in droves during the November 3 midterms.

Vote HBCU registered more than 800 students in under a month across 10 campuses.

Last year, lawmakers removed several on-campus voting sites, limiting students’ ability to vote. This didn’t deter HBCU students—they marched for miles to get out the vote, calling it Votecoming (a nod to HBCU Homecoming tradition). In Greensboro, NC, after early polling sites were removed from campus, students from Bennett College (a UNCF-member institution) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University marched to exercise their right to vote. On the first day of a joint march with students from Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College (all UNCF-member institutions), about 430 people marched to Friendship Baptist Church to vote.

Voting rights marches took place on and near the campuses of Alcorn State University, Bennett, Bowie State University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Jackson State University, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina A&T and more.

Watch students at Livingstone College (a UNCF-member institution) marching to vote in North Carolina.

Hear students at Johnson C. Smith University (a UNCF-member institution) share why voting is important.