Retracing the Struggle, Part III: Voting Rights and Electoral Politics Today
- I: From Civil Rights to Voting Rights—The History
- II: The Social and Political Impact of the Voting Rights Act
- III: Voting Rights and Electoral Politics Today
This symposium, presented by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, hosted by Boston College, and titled “Retracing the Struggle: The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” observes the anniversary of one of the key pieces of legislature that has shaped democracy in the United States, a law eliminating discriminatory election practices and thereby enforcing the rights granted to all American citizens under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Part three of three focuses on the current debate about the temporary provisions of the Voting Rights Act, now being reassessed, and the form in which the law will continue its existence. The panelists are Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), an active proponent of the civil rights movement. Mark Starr, Newsweek senior editor and Boston bureau chief, moderates.
The session opens with remarks by Ron Bell, project director of the Boston reenactment of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march, to be held on the day following this symposium. The panel is introduced by Cullen Murphy, managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a member of the board of the Massachusetts Foundation of the Humanities.
Presenter(s): Roger Clegg, Wade Henderson, John Lewis, Mark Starr
Date: October 29, 2005
Location: Robsham Theater, Boston College
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities; hosted by Boston College
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/retracing3/
The information on this page is accurate as of October 2005