In the last two years, it led a drive that registered 135,000 new voters.

In 1999 the population was 156,344 with 89092 voters registered for the 2007 election.

The white students who came by bus from the North to register black voters.

In the months leading up to the 2004 election, both parties made efforts to register new voters.

In major cities, civil rights organizations moved quickly to register black voters.

Jackson's 1942 movement to register black voters began a shift in city politics.

Democrats there registered nearly 45,000 more voters than the Republicans in that period, state records show.

It has registered new voters and gotten them to the polls.

She estimated the alliance had registered at least 2,000 new voters, most of them women.

"They registered voters, which is a wonderful thing," he said.