“It was this huge wakeup call for me and others who were working with me. “I’m gonna go out on a ledge and say over 90% of our students were not registered to vote,” Clarke said. And what she found out about the students at A&M, a historically Black university, scared her. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in its Shelby County v. That was in 2016, almost three years after the U.S. When Monica Clarke began working at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, she was looking for something, a calling, that she could bring to her work.Īs the school’s service and learning coordinator, she was in contact with students daily, so she was in a prime position to not only be an observer but also an influencer on the young men and women at the college.
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