Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in an article honoring the life and legacy of Amelia Boynton. Published in The Guardian, the piece provides an overview of the work of the influential Selma-based civil rights activist, who was instrumental in the grassroots organizing that led to Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read an excerpt from the article quoting Anderson below along with the full piece: “Fight to vote: the woman who was key in ‘getting us the Voting Rights Act.‘”

“‘She got us the Voting Rights Act,’ said Carol Anderson, a historian at Emory University.

“‘It’s one of the ‘failings,’ and I’ll put that in quotes, of the writings of the civil rights movement, is that women who are key in organizing are written out,’ she added. ‘The grassroots work of Mrs Boynton just didn’t get the kind of respect and honor that it deserved.'”