A. M. Eastern, senator elizabeth boston. N watch live on cspan, or listen free cspan radio app. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we feature authors from all side of the political spectrum. Sues. Andersons is carol with her book one person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Right
One person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Rights act. It began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. Where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero africanamericans were registered to vote. What the Voting Rights and did was have a provision called preclarence, meaning certain jurisdictions that had a documented history of discrimination against its citizens had to hav
From all sides of the political spectrum on key Public Policy issues. Joining us today to talk about her book is an africanamerican studies professor at and where university in atlanta. Why did you write this book . The book emerged out of two things. One was the 2016 election. There is what i heard the pundits talking about how you know black people just did not show up. Hillary lost because black people did not show up in hillary lost because my people just were not feeling hillary. And i looked at that and he didnt make any sense because this was the first election in president ial election in years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. And we have had a series of laws coming targeted at africanamericans, so i want to begin to lay out how actually vote or suppression works. Because it is legal to democracy. So what protections were in place before the 2016 election under the Voting Rights act, and what happened to them . Remind our viewers. Passed,65, Congress President L
Good morning to you. I will show viewers the photograph of the girl. Tell us who she is. Senator dorgan the book is entitled the girl in the photograph. A, lived ond tamar an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. Very severely party. Unknen her arm, leg were broken and she no medicaloom with attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was feature and a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raise a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i center a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. Ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later i got
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