LWV of Ridgefield Host "African American Suffragettes and Black Women Voters: Making Herstory"

LWV of Ridgefield Host "African American Suffragettes and Black Women Voters: Making Herstory"

Photo of Event Speaker Gloria Browne-Marshall

Location

Online - ZOOM Ridgefield Connecticut
Connecticut US
Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 7:00pm to Friday, September 18, 2020 - 6:45pm

Professor Browne-Marshall will reveal the important stories of Black women who battled against laws and a society prejudiced against their race and gender.  Overcoming these seemingly impossible odds they rose from Black Suffragettes to present-day positions of political power.

 A civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Professor Browne-Marshall is a professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and has spoken on issues of law and justice in Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, South Africa, and before the United Nations in Geneva. She is a renowned author, playwright, essayist and TV legal commentator who covers the United States Supreme Court and major cases.   

Please register to receive the Zoom link at: https://ridgefieldlibrary.librarymarket.com/events/online-african-american-suffragettes-and-black-women-voters

Contact Information
Lesley Lambton
lalambton [at] ridgefieldlibrary.org
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