{"id":6006,"date":"2022-08-09T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:31:46","slug":"anderson-speaks-on-voter-disenfranchisement-at-juneteenth-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/08\/09\/anderson-speaks-on-voter-disenfranchisement-at-juneteenth-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Speaks on Voter Disenfranchisement at Juneteenth Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African-American Studies,\u00a0spoke on voter disenfranchisement at a Juneteenth gala in Dalton, Georgia. The <em>Dalton Daily Citizen <\/em>covered Anderson&#8217;s speech, which was organized by the Dalton-Whitfield NAACP. Anderson is the author of multiple influential books on racial inequality and politics in the U.S., including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/white-rage-9781632864123\/\">White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2016) and <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 the <em>Dalton Daily Citizen&#8217;s<\/em> coverage below along with the full article here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycitizen.news\/news\/local_news\/emory-professor-sounds-alarm-on-voter-disenfranchisement\/article_d601be56-ef03-11ec-913c-af7438745603.html\">Emory professor sounds alarm on voter disenfranchisement<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe thing about a lie is, if you say it enough and convincingly, it becomes the truth,\u201d said Anderson, Charles Howard Candler professor and chair of African American Studies at Emory University. \u201cWe\u2019re in a war for American democracy right now, and the only way it\u2019ll be won is by fighting for democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African-American Studies,\u00a0spoke on voter disenfranchisement at a Juneteenth gala in Dalton, Georgia. The Dalton Daily Citizen covered Anderson&#8217;s speech, which was organized by the Dalton-Whitfield NAACP. Anderson is the author of multiple influential books on racial inequality and politics in the U.S., including White Rage: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","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=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}