Did you know that there are people out there who want to make it hard for you to vote? What are they afraid of? Dr. Liette Gidlow, professor of history at Wayne State University, will speak on “Voting Rights in the U.S. from New Nation to Now”, on Wednesday, October 16th, at 4:30 pm in Bobbitt Auditorium, as the History department’s 2024 Coy James Lecturer in American History. Dr. Gidlow, a scholar of voting rights, woman suffrage, and Black electoral politics, is the author of The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s – 1920s, and the editor of Obama, Clinton, Palin: Making History in Election 2008. The lecture is free and open to the public. Don’t stay home! And don’t stay home on November 5th!
Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Ellen Wilch (ewilch@albion.edu)