Protect Our Vote: The History of African American Voting

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, a UIUC scholar of African American studies and history, traced Black voting rights across four periods: enslavement, Reconstruction and its violent overthrow, the era of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and voter suppression after 2013. He posed an audience exercise on how few years Black Americans have actually had majority access to the ballot, then took written and online questions. Fall 2021 series "Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying?", co-presented with Diversity Ed.