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Virtual panel held to discuss suffrage, Black women’s suffrage and voter suppression

Sarah Pinkerton, Baylor Lariat | Published on 9/23/2020

To recognize the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, a virtual panel was held on Tuesday, National Voter Registration Day. Speakers discussed the history of women’s suffrage, Black women’s suffrage and the way voter suppression continues.

The W.R. Poage Legislative Library, the Institute for Oral History and the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Baylor partnered with the Waco National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to host the event.

Dr. Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor, Dr. Peaches Henry, president of the Waco NAACP and assistant professor of English at McLennan Community College and Dr. Christina Chan-Park, associate librarian for Baylor Libraries and president of the Waco League of Women Voters, spoke at the panel.

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