Location
Zoom Webinar
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US
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
This year is the 150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment and the 55th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, yet the struggle for the ballot continues. The panelists will provide an overview of the history of voting rights laws in the United States; and more specifically in North Carolina. In addition, the panelist will provide an update on recent attempts at voter suppression around the country and an update on the challenges to voting laws in North Carolina. Pre-Registration is required. Click here to register. Free and open to the public.
Panelist:
Theodore M. Shaw
Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law @Director of the Center for Civil Rights at UNC School of Law
Ted Shaw is the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights.
Shaw teaches Civil Procedure and Advanced Constitutional Law. His research areas include the Fourteenth Amendment, affirmative action, housing policies regarding fair housing. Shaw has published many book chapters, articles and essays on civil rights, including the introduction to The Ferguson Report: United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. In 1982, Shaw joined the staff of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), where he worked for 26 years, litigating cases related to elementary, secondary and higher education, housing, voting rights and capital punishment. In 2004, became its fifth Director-Counsel of the LDF. Shaw previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School, where he played a key role in initiating a review of its admissions policy that was later upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003 by the Supreme Court.
Allison Riggins
Interim Executive Director/Chief Counsel @Voting Rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Allison Riggs leads the voting rights program at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, an organization she joined in 2009. In March of 2020, she also took over as Interim Executive Director of the organization. Her voting rights work over the last decade at SCSJ has been focused on fighting for fair redistricting plans, fighting against voter suppression, and advocating for electoral reforms that would expand access to voting. She has litigated redistricting cases on behalf of State NAACP Conferences in Texas, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina. In 2018, she argued the Texas redistricting case in the United States Supreme Court, and in 2019, she argued the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case in the Supreme Court. Allison works closely with grassroots organizations and communities of color as they seek to advance their political and civil rights.
Dr. James L. Leloudis II, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean of Honors,Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence @University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. James Leloudis is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Honors, Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James Leloudis’s chief interest is the history of the modern South, with emphases on labor, education, race, and reform. He and Robert Korstad of Duke University are currently working on a history of voting rights and a research and civic engagement project on “The Moral Challenges of Poverty and the Ethics of Service.”
Sponsors: Orange County Dept. Human Rights and Relations, Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition, NAACP of Chapel Hill
