{"id":2934,"date":"2019-04-17T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2019-04-17T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:29:44","slug":"carol-anderson-discusses-history-of-voter-suppression-with-stacey-abrams-and-leading-scholars-at-library-company-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2019\/04\/17\/carol-anderson-discusses-history-of-voter-suppression-with-stacey-abrams-and-leading-scholars-at-library-company-of-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Anderson Discusses History of Voter Suppression with Stacey Abrams and Leading Scholars at Library Company of Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, recently participated in a roundtable on the history of voter suppression at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Anderson is Associated Faculty in the History Department. Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia and who attributes the outcome to voter suppression, also participated in the conversation. Anderson is, most recently, the author of<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Person-Vote-Suppression-Destroying\/dp\/1635571375\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\">One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2018).\u00a0Read\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>&#8216; article about the gathering here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/08\/arts\/stacey-abrams-voter-suppression-historians.html\">For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History \u2014 or at Least the People Who Write It<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, recently participated in a roundtable on the history of voter suppression at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Anderson is Associated Faculty in the History Department. Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia and who attributes the outcome to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}