Steve Suitts, Author of A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Theater
Atlanta, GA
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST
Steve Suitts explains how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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