Benson: Economic opportunity is the unfinished work of the Civil Rights movement

By: Katherine Dailey

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: October 14, 2026

Words: 1,907

Last Updated: 3 days, 22 hours ago

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Jocelyn Benson has been Michigan’s Secretary of State since the start of 2019. But before that, she was, as she describes, “a student of the Civil Rights movement,” moving to Montgomery, Alabama after college to volunteer with civil rights organizations investigating hate groups. After graduating from law school, she worked at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and clerked with Judge Damon Keith, a notable federal judge and civil rights champion in Detroit. She went …

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