UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As states across the country seek to strengthen voting regulations and enact new restrictions, the history of voting access in the U.S. has perhaps never been more critical to examine.
Voting rights scholar Carol Anderson will visit Penn State this fall to discuss her book “One Person, No Vote,” which examines how African American voter suppression continued after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 21 at The State Theatre. Both in-person and virtual attendance options are available.
Anderson’s lecture will chronicle the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision that many argue eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "One Person, No Vote" 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.
Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. In addition to “One Person, No Vote,” she is the author of “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America” and "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide," a New York Times bestseller.
The lecture is sponsored by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Africana Research Center, Humanities Institute and Richards Civil War Era Center. Both in-person and virtual registration are available at The State Theatre's website. During registration, attendees can submit questions for a Q&A session following Anderson's lecture.