We are thrilled that NY Times best-selling author Carol Anderson, a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, has agreed to travel from Atlanta, Georgia, to speak in our Peninsula Swing Left Speakers Series on Sunday, June 23 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Professor Anderson’s most recent book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, NPR, and the New York Public Library.

In her post-mortem of the 2016 presidential election, Anderson directs our attention to one simple fact: in November 2016, black voter turnout fell by 7%. She rejects the notion that this drop reflects how voters felt about Hillary Clinton. “Minority voters did not just refuse to show up, “she writes, “ . . . African Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans were systematically blocked from access to the polls.” As Senator Dick Durbin says in the foreword to this powerful book, “For the sake of those who fought and died for [the right to vote], it is up to all of us to insist that this most basic American right be protected. Reading this well-crafted book will arm you with the facts.”

As we prepare for the 2020 elections, join us in learning more about how voter suppression may impact our future. As President Franklin Roosevelt said, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

Please join us on June 23. You will see the address after you RSVP.

If you are interested in purchasing Professor Anderson’s book, please contact us at speakerseries@swingleftpeninsula.org, and we will have an author-signed copy waiting for you at the event.

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