This event and provided the video. Its my pleasure to introduce nicole and her book, Nicole Turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her p. H. D. In history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters in divinity at Union Theological seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from Political Science from howardford college and is the author this 2020 book, soul liberty the evolution of black religious politics in post emancipation virginia published any the university of North Carolina press. And before asking if nicole the first question, i want to mention this book appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is its so engaged with digital humanity. The book also exists as a conventional, sort of conventional she describes it verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which has which shows off what dr. Turner was able to
Welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth, and im the executive director here at the Woodrow Wilson house and its my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that were going to have on suffrage. So the wilson house, if you havent been here before, its part of the National Trust for historic preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house and they turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 upon her death and it has been lovingly cared for and so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Asantewa boakyewa, our senior manager of collections and interpretations, said to me this summer when i first started the job, there is a commission on the suffrage and i think we should go to that meeting. Its the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said, okay, im going to go with you. And so we went down to the library of congress and we sat at a big table and there were a
Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r
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