A closer look at the defining struggles that shaped Stacey Abrams's life and career.
Stacey Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, and as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A prominent Democrat, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action in 2018, an organization dedicated to combating voter suppression. She is widely recognized for her impactful work in increasing voter turnout in Georgia, particularly in the 2020 presidential election and the 2020-21 Senate elections, which ultimately contributed to Democratic victories.
In 1956, the Confederate battle flag was added to the Georgia state flag as an anti-civil rights movement action.
In June 1992, Stacey Abrams participated in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, during which she joined in burning the Georgia state flag with the Confederate battle flag.
Between 2012 and 2018, Kemp's office canceled over 1.4 million voter registrations.
Abrams deferred her 2015 taxes to help with her family's medical bills.
Abrams deferred her 2016 taxes to help with her family's medical bills.
Between 2016 and 2017, approximately 534,000 Georgians had their voter registrations purged, with more than 334,000 still living where they were registered.
On a single night in July 2017, half a million voters had their registrations canceled by Kemp's office, with election-law experts suggesting that this "may represent the largest mass disenfranchisement in US history."
In 2017, Kemp purged nearly 670,000 voter registrations, which Abrams argued suppressed turnout.
In April 2018, Abrams wrote an op-ed revealing that she owed $54,000 in federal back taxes and held $174,000 in debt.
By early October 2018, more than 53,000 voter registration applications had been put on hold by Kemp's office, with more than 75% belonging to minorities.
On November 6, 2018, Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia gubernatorial election by 54,723 votes.
Between 2012 and 2018, Kemp's office canceled over 1.4 million voter registrations.
In 2018, Stacey Abrams was the Democratic nominee in the Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States; she lost to Brian Kemp by 1.4%.
In 2018, during the election between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp, Kemp was accused of voter suppression in his role as Georgia's secretary of state. Political scientists and election law experts criticized his actions, raising concerns about voter disenfranchisement and election security.
In 2020, Kemp's office announced that it was investigating the Georgia Democratic Party for unspecified "possible cybercrimes", later investigation concluded that there was no evidence of computer crimes.
In April 2021, a judge allowed some claims in the legal challenge to proceed while rejecting others in the Fair Fight lawsuit.
In October 2022, a federal judge ruled against Fair Fight on remaining claims, stating that Georgia's voting regulations did not violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.
On November 8, 2022, Abrams lost the election to Kemp and conceded that night.
In 2022, Stacey Abrams was the Democratic nominee in the Georgia gubernatorial election, and lost to Brian Kemp by a margin of 7.5%.
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