As the 2020 election draws near, the Living Legacy Project is offering a monthly online series focused on voting rights. In these sessions, we'll be exploring what we can learn from the Voting Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s to apply to challenges we face today in these unprecedented times.
Mark your calendars now!
We'll be meeting the last Tuesday of every month until Election Day 2020! View programs you missed below!
All programs are at 7:30 pm Eastern, 6:30 pm Central, 5:30 pm Mountain, 4:30 pm Pacific. Programs are 60 minutes long followed by an informal discussion time. Come early 7:15 pm (EDT) for the pre-show of live music with one of our fabulous Living Legacy musicians!
In the ongoing series, “Voting Rights: The Struggle Continues,” the Living Legacy Project's August program commemorates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. However, in reality, the 19th Amendment only guaranteed the right of White women to vote. Native American women on reservations were not able to vote until the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. African American women, especially those living in the Jim Crow South, were denied the right to vote through laws and practices that prevented them from even registering to vote. It was not until the abolition of the poll tax in 1964, and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 that all women could exercise their right to vote.
In this program, we'll hear from three women who, through their lineage and their own activism, represent the struggle for all women’s suffrage:
Michelle Duster
Michelle Duster is a writer, speaker, professor, and champion of racial and gender equity. She co-wrote the popular children’s history book, Tate and His Historic Dream; co-edited Shifts: An Anthology of Women's Growth Through Change and Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls; and edited two books that include the writings of her great-grandmother, the iconic anti-lynching activist and suffragist, Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931). For more about Ms. Duster, visit https://mldwrites.com/.
Chevara Orrin
Chevara Orrin is an award-winning diversity and inclusion practitioner, social entrepreneur, published author, social justice activist, independent filmmaker, and dynamic public speaker. Her work and passion lives at the intersection of gender parity, racial equity, LGBTQ equality, and arts activism. Chevara is the daughter of Civil Rights Movement organizer, the Rev. James Bevel (1936-2008). For more about Ms. Orris, visit https://www.wintersgroup.com/team/chevara-orrin/.
Andrea Jenkins