Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion and Workshop
Join us for this Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion and Workshop!
Voting rights were at the heart of the modern Civil Rights Movement, something that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and others could organize around. SNCC field secretaries were deeply committed to living and working with local people. They went door-to-door, day after day, visiting with and encouraging people to overcome their fears around trying to register.
SNCC continued to work on voter registration and political organizing after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and voting and voting rights remain critically important to meaningful citizenship today. Join humanities scholars Wesley Hogan and Joshua Myers for a discussion with SNCC veterans Charles Cobb, Jr. and Jennifer Lawson to learn more about voting rights and explore the role of grassroots organizing in securing access to the vote.
The event will be held at 10:00 a.m. in the Great Hall of NCCU's School of Law.