BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4647-9e7a8b396b19100a51eeeaca65cf4bcc@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260421T033306Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T173000 SUMMARY:Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote DESCRIPTION:As states across the country seek to strengthen voting regul ations and enact new restrictions\, the history of voting access in the United States has perhaps never been more critical to examine.\n\nJoin T he \;McCourtney Institute for Democracy on Tuesday\, September 21 at 4:00 p.m. EDT for a presentation by voting rights scholar Carol Anderso n\, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One Person\, No Vote: How Voter Suppressi on is Destroying Our Democracy.\n\nIn this lecture\, Anderson will chron icle the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since t he 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision that many argue e viscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She follows the story of gover nment-dictated racial discrimination unfolding as more and more states s eek to restrict voter access through photo ID requirements\, gerrymander ing\, poll closures\, and other measures. \n\nAnderson&rsquo\;s latest b ook is The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Both One Person\, No Vote and The Second will be available for purchase at the le cture. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Penn State&rsquo\;s McCourtney Institute for Democracy\, Africana Research Center\, Humanities Institut e\, and Richards Civil War Era Center. RSVP to attend in person or virtu ally.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/carol-anderso n/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

As states across the country seek to strengthen voting regulations and enact new restrictions, the history of voting access in the United S tates has perhaps never been more critical to examine.

Join The McCourtney Institute for Democracy on Tuesday, Se ptember 21 at 4:00 p.m. 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 V oter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.

In this lecture, Anderson will chronicle the rollbacks to African Am erican participation in the vote since the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision that many argue eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She follows the story of government-dictated racial discrimina tion unfolding as more and more states seek to restrict voter access thr ough photo ID requirements, gerrymandering, poll closures, and other mea sures.

Anderson’s latest book is The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Both One Per son, No Vote and The Second will be available for purchase at the lecture.

This event is co-sponsored by P enn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Africana Research Center, Humanities Institute, and Richards Civil War Era Center. RSVP to attend in person or virtually.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even t/carol-anderson/

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