{"id":4867,"date":"2021-05-14T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2021-05-14T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:10:08","slug":"anderson-draws-parallels-to-jim-crow-era-in-cnn-articles-on-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/05\/14\/anderson-draws-parallels-to-jim-crow-era-in-cnn-articles-on-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Draws Parallels to Jim Crow Era in CNN Articles on Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a> was quoted in two recent CNN articles produced as part of a series on voter suppression. The articles examine legislation in multiple states, including Georgia, that observers see as meaningfully restricting voting access and curbing voters&#8217; rights. Anderson explains how this legislation echoes voter suppression tactics from the Jim Crow era. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anderson is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, Department Chair, and Associated Faculty in the History Department. She is the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/one-person-no-vote-9781635571387\/\">One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2018). Read an excerpt from Anderson&#8217;s contribution to the first CNN article below, along with the full versions of each: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/01\/politics\/republican-bills-empower-partisan-poll-watchers\/index.html\">Republican state lawmakers look to empower partisan poll watchers, setting off alarms about potential voter intimidation<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/08\/politics\/black-voter-suppression\/index.html\">A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;Carol Anderson, an historian and professor of African American Studies at Emory University, said the new proposals build on a history of voter intimidation that long has targeted people of color. &#8216;What&#8217;s built into this is the inequality of the system itself,&#8217; she said. &#8216;You know that somebody who is Black or Hispanic will not be able to go up into an all-White precinct and start challenging those voters without having a massive law-enforcement response.&#8217; She called the wave of new laws &#8216;infuriating.&#8217; &#8216;It&#8217;s infuriating because we&#8217;ve done this dance before,&#8217; Anderson said. &#8216;We know what a Jim Crow democracy looks like and the damage it does to the United States of America and to its people.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson was quoted in two recent CNN articles produced as part of a series on voter suppression. The articles examine legislation in multiple states, including Georgia, that observers see as meaningfully restricting voting access and curbing voters&#8217; rights. Anderson explains how this legislation echoes voter suppression tactics from the Jim Crow era. Dr. Anderson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}