Pamela Moses said she had taken all the steps to restore her voting rights in Tennessee.
Moses, a Black Lives Matter activist and former Democratic mayoral candidate in Memphis, had an extensive record of felony convictions, including a conviction for tampering with evidence that caused her to permanently lose her voting rights in the state.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Prosecutors will no longer pursue illegal voter registration charges against a Tennessee woman who was granted a new trial after she challenged her jury conviction, a district attorney said Friday.
Amy Weirich stirred outrage for bringing criminal charges against Pamela Moses, whose conviction was subsequently overturned. Amy Weirich, the Memphis prosecutor who stirred national outrage for bringing criminal charges against a Black woman for trying to register to vote, has lost her re-election bid.
After prosecutors dropped criminal charges against Moses for trying to register to vote, I met her in person – and learned what’s next now that her case is over.
Pamela Moses won’t ever be allowed to cast a ballot in Tennessee, but she also won’t be incarcerated after improperly trying to register to vote.
For more than a century, Jim Crow laws kept Black people from voting, a constitutional right awarded in 1870. In the 2024 presidential election, history has begun to repeat itself, say community leaders.
Following a prison sentence that led to a lawsuit against Tennessee, Pamela Moses is vying to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, but as an independent candidate instead of a Democrat.
In the summer of 2019, Pamela Moses, of Memphis, Tennessee, contemplated a campaign to be the city’s next mayor. Moses was 41 years old and a long-time activist with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Pamela Moses, who was sentenced in January to six years in a case that outraged voting rights supporters, will not face a new trial, a district attorney said.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Former voting and human rights activist, Pamela Moses, officially announced her candidacy for the United States Senate.
