UM Suffrage 2020 Event: Talk by Judge Anita Earls, “Movements to Expand the Franchise and Perfect our Democracy: A Legal Perspective”

Please join us as we commemorate the passage of the 19th amendment and welcome Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Anita Earls. Justice Earls is an African-American civil rights attorney, educator, and founder of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ). Her lecture will examine the fight for women’s suffrage in light of her experiences in voting rights mobilization in the South and bridge past and present struggles for voting rights.  Organized by Political Science, the Law School, LSA.

Sponsored by: The Department of Political Science, the Suffrage 2020 Collaboration and the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester

More information: https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/news-events/all-events.detail.html/74664-18890933.html