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African Americans have been blocked from voting, but the Black vote is not a ‘bloc’

Black History Month’s theme for 2020 is African Americans and the Vote. Three Penn scholars define what the “Black vote” means when viewed through history, and what it doesn’t mean when viewed as an indivisible bloc.
Two people sign papers registering a third person to vote at the Black Expo in 1973, behind the table a sign reads "Get a piece of the action Register now TO VOTE"
Voter registration drive at Black Expo, an annual exhibit of Black talent, education, and products in Chicago, October 1973. 

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