I'm Jenna Spinelle, and welcome to Democracy Works. As Mark Twain famously said, "history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." After listening to this conversation, it's hard not to think that's the case with voting.Īnderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of the bestselling books "One Person No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy," "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide" and "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America."įrom the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, I'm Michael Berkman. She draws parallels between poll taxes and literacy tests in the Jim Crow era to voter ID laws and other modern-day barriers designed to keep people of color from voting. Holder, which nullified critical pieces of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the book and in this conversation, Anderson traces the history of voter suppression since the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Carol Anderson's book :One Person, No Vote" was written before COVID-19, but many of the patterns she discussed are more salient than ever as states enact new voting restrictions ahead of the 2022 midterms.
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