Continuing Challenges to Suffrage in Michigan in 2020: Who Still Can’t Vote?

photo of people waiting in line to vote; credit: Michael B. Thomas, Getty Images
Participants : 
  • Stephanie Chang, member of the State House of Representatives and co-founder and past president of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote-Michigan; 
  • Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power; 
  • Reverend Wendell Anthony, President of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP and leader of voting rights campaigns, including Take Your Souls to the Polls and Proposal 3;
  • Matthew L.M. Fletcher, law professor and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University, as well as an appellate judge for numerous tribal courts.
  • Moderated by Michael Steinberg, Professor from Practice, UM Law School, former legal director, Michigan ACLU.
Event Date: 
October 12, 2020
Event Time: 
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Online event via Zoom
photo of people waiting in line to vote; credit: Michael B. Thomas, Getty Images

Organized by Women and Gender Studies, The Ford School, LSA

Sponsored by: The entire Suffrage 2020 Collaboration and the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester

Zoom Meeting link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94834992200

 

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