{"id":6975,"date":"2023-08-24T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:44:27","slug":"anderson-analyzes-historical-significance-of-trump-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/08\/24\/anderson-analyzes-historical-significance-of-trump-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Analyzes Historical Significance of Trump Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/11\/anderson.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/professorcarolanderson.org\/\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American History, recently appeared on the news program <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> to discuss the indictment of ex-president Donald J. Trump on charges that he interfered in the 2020 election. Anderson analyzes the indictment&#8217;s citation of the KKK Act, the Reconstruction-era law that protects citizens&#8217; voting rights. An associated faculty member in the Department of History, Anderson 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>\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2018),\u00a0<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, most recently, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/second-9781635574258\/\">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2021). Watch the full interview here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/8\/4\/trump_not_guilty_indictments\">Trump &amp; the\u00a0KKK\u00a0Act: Carol Anderson on Reconstruction-Era Voting Rights Law Cited in Trump Indictment<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American History, recently appeared on the news program Democracy Now! to discuss the indictment of ex-president Donald J. Trump on charges that he interfered in the 2020 election. Anderson analyzes the indictment&#8217;s citation of the KKK Act, the Reconstruction-era law that protects citizens&#8217; voting rights. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-humanities","category-public-scholarship","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975","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\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}