Profs & Pints DC: The Long Fight Over Voting Rights

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Long Fight Over Voting Rights,” on today’s battles over political representation as part of a persistent struggle, with Jatia Wrighten, assistant professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University.

We often talk about election disputes as if they began only recently. The reality is that this nation’s fight over who gets to vote did not start yesterday and surely will not end with Donald Trump.

Learn how what feels like a modern crisis is actually a recurring theme of American history, and how the past offers lessons for the present and future, with political scientist Jatia Wrighten, a scholar of minority political representation. 

You’ll learn how our nation has long been bitterly divided over questions related to who gets a voice in our government and how easy it should be to vote.

We’ll go back in time to the Reconstruction period after the Civil…