Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

About Carol AndersonHeather Ann ThompsonHeather Cox RichardsonKevin M. KruseStacey Abrams

JIM DOWNS is a professor of history and American studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (Georgia) and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America. STACEY ABRAMS is a New York Times best-selling author serial entrepreneur nonprofit CEO and political leader. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives seven as minority leader in 2018 Abrams became the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia when she won more votes than any other Democrat in the states history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election by the secretary of states office Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system. Over the course of her career Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights training and hiring young people of colour and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels including Fair Countto ensure that the 2020 Census is fair accurate and complete. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. She and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport Mississippi and Georgia. CAROL ANDERSON is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and a Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. She is the author of several books including Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights 19441955 which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards; White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide which won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and was also a New York Times best seller and a New York Times Editors Pick. Her most recent book One Person No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy was long-listed for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Award in Nonfiction. KEVIN M. KRUSE specializes in twentieth-century American political history with special attention to conflicts over race religion and rights. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. He is a professor of history at Princeton University where he has served on the faculty since 2000. Kruse is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America and with Julian Zelizer Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974 as well as the coeditor of three essay collections. He is currently working on his next project titled The Division: John Doar the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Movement. HEATHER ANN THOMPSON is a native Detroiter and historian on faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the departments of history and Afro-American and African studies and at the Residential College. Her recent book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy profiled on television and radio programs across the country won the Pulitzer Prize in History the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy the Ridenhour Book Prize the J. Willard Hurst Prize and a New York City Bar Association book prize. The book was also named a finalist for the National Book Award the Los Angeles Book Prize in History and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association and it was named on fourteen best books of 2016 lists including those compiled by the New York Times Newsweek Kirkus Reviews the Boston Globe Publishers Weekly Bloomberg the Marshall Project the Baltimore City Paper Book Scroll and the Christian Science Monitor. Additionally Blood in the Water appeared on the Best Human Rights Books of 2016 list and received starred reviews from Library Journal Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Blood in the Water has also been optioned by TriStar Pictures and will be adapted for film by acclaimed screenwriters Anna Waterhouse and Joe Schrapnel.Jim Downs (editor) HEATHER COX RICHARDSON is professor of history at Boston College and the author of a number of books about American politics including To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party and most recently How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. She writes widely for popular publications and is a national commentator on American political history and the Republican Party. Her work has appeared in the Guardian the Washington Post the New York Times the Chicago Tribune and Quartz among other publications and she is the author of Letters from an American an online chronicle of the U.S. government.