{"id":3843,"date":"2020-09-12T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2020-09-12T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:55:46","slug":"anderson-discusses-voting-rights-and-voter-suppression-in-ajc-and-on-utah-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/09\/12\/anderson-discusses-voting-rights-and-voter-suppression-in-ajc-and-on-utah-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Discusses Voting Rights and Voter Suppression in &#8216;AJC&#8217; and on &#8216;Utah Public Radio&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently featured on <em>Utah Public Radio <\/em>and in the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>. Anderson was a guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upr.org\/post\/one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson-tuesdays-access-utah\">Access Utah<\/a> in advance of speaking at the the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.usu.edu\/voting-rights-symposium\/register\">Voting Rights Symposium at Utah State University<\/a> on September 17. Anderson was also a prominent contributor to the recent <em>AJC<\/em> opinion piece, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/opinion-trench-warfare-over-the-right-to-vote-has-arrived-in-georgia\/B56IVK4LBVFILBHPDTPKV6SNGA\/\">Trench warfare over the right to vote has arrived in Georgia<\/a>.&#8221; Read an excerpt from the <em>AJC <\/em>piece below along with the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/opinion-trench-warfare-over-the-right-to-vote-has-arrived-in-georgia\/B56IVK4LBVFILBHPDTPKV6SNGA\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cVoter fraud is rare. And Georgia voters faced widespread administrative failures during this primary. Documented failures. What we really need to be having is a conversation about providing reassurance, calm and clarity,\u201d Anderson said.<\/em><\/p><cite>&#8211; Carol Anderson, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/opinion-trench-warfare-over-the-right-to-vote-has-arrived-in-georgia\/B56IVK4LBVFILBHPDTPKV6SNGA\/\">Trench warfare over the right to vote has arrived in Georgia<\/a>.&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently featured on Utah Public Radio and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Anderson was a guest on Access Utah in advance of speaking at the the Voting Rights Symposium at Utah State University on September 17. Anderson was [&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-3843","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\/3843","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=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}