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The Voting Rights Act: After Almost 60 Years, Understanding the Civil Rights Movement

When:
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM
Where:
KCMO Plaza Library
4801 Main St,
Kansas City, MO  64112
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The Voting Rights Act: After Almost 60 Years, Understanding the Civil Rights Movement from the Bottom Up with Dr. Emilye Crosby

CELEBRATE WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY


AUGUST 25, 2022 - 6:00 PM

Plaza Library - 4801 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64112

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https://kclibrary.org/signature-events/they-fought-fight-1965-voting-rights-act


Moderated by: Dr. Carmaletta Williams, Executive Director of the Black Archives of Mid America

 

The Women’s Equality Coalition invites you to celebrate at the Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch at 6:00 PM. We have invited Dr. Emilye Crosby, Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo, who will discuss the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act from a ground level view of the civil rights movement and especially, the role of women in its successful passage. Rather than the conventional top down lens that focuses on visible leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Crosby will examine the role of ordinary people in the movement who did the hard work of grassroots organizing. Almost sixty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, lessons from bottom up history are more important than ever.


Professor Crosby is a significant young scholar of the civil rights movement. Her book about the activists in a Mississippi community, A Little Taste of Freedom, won the Mississippi Historical Society book prize and an honorable mention from the Organization of American Historians for the Liberty Legacy Prize. She edited Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles in a National Movement. She has received the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching and for Excellence in Faculty Service as well as the President’s Award for Research and Creativity and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and Visiting Scholar at Emory University.


Raised in Mississippi, she attended a local public elementary and high school. She received her BA from Macalester College and PhD from Indiana University.

The event is co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library & Women's Equality Coalition of Greater Kansas City.