Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

CAROL ANDERSON, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair, African American Studies; 2018-2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies

“Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century”

Emory historian Carol Anderson, whose previous book White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, will speak about her most recent book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (longlisted for the National Book Award).  Focusing on the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the book follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination as more and more states adopted laws and practices that suppress votes. And via vivid characters, the book also explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans. The paperback edition of the book, due out this month, contains a foreward by Senator Dick Durbin and an afterword in which Carol examines the repercussions of the 2018 midterm elections. If you don’t own the book already, you may want to invest in this new edition now. Just sayin’.