She follows the story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding as more and more states seek to restrict voter access through photo ID requirements, gerrymandering, poll closures, and other measures.Īnderson’s latest book is The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Holder Supreme Court decision that many argue eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In this lecture, Anderson will chronicle the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Shelby County v. EDT for a presentation by voting rights scholar Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. Join The McCourtney Institute for Democracy on Tuesday, September 21 at 4:00 p.m. As states across the country seek to strengthen voting regulations and enact new restrictions, the history of voting access in the United States has perhaps never been more critical to examine.
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