Donate to 1866 Action Fund

WE ARE THE 1866 ACTION FUND, an Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee (OCPF 81103) in Massachusetts raising funds to execute paid media campaigns and grassroots mobilization efforts seeking to advance, support and ultimately elect Black candidates to local political office across the Commonwealth.

ON NOVEMBER 6, 1866, just one year after the end of the Civil War, Massachusetts voters elected the first Black members of the Massachusetts General Court: Edward Garrison Walker, a lawyer from Charlestown, and Charles Lewis Mitchell, a printer in Boston’s Beacon Hill and Back Bay. In the early years of the reconstruction era, Walker and Mitchell worked to turn their communities interests and needs into legislation, policy and law.

WE WORK TO ELECT BLACK LEADERS in every corner of the Commonwealth.

WE WILL ENDORSE AND ELECT LEADERS to City Council, Town Council, Select Board, State Representative, State Senate, District Attorney, Sheriff, School Committee, State Committee, Governor’s Council, etc.

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