Over 6 million Americans cannot vote in America due to a felony conviction. In 11 states, including Tennessee, convicted felons cannot vote while in prison, on parole or probation, or post-sentencing. Tennessee also has one of the highest rates of felon disenfranchisement, and the path to restoration of voting rights is expensive and complicated.
Join us to learn about the implications of felon disfranchisement on voting patterns and our fellow Tennesseans’ voices at the ballot box. Our guest speaker, Dr. Pippa Holloway, will help us consider the history and justice behind felon disfranchisement , and how this connects to other forms of disfranchisement.
About our speaker
Pippa Holloway is the Douglas Southall Freeman Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Her research and teaching focuses on legal and political culture in the 19th and 20th century. Her most recent monograph is titled Living In Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship. She is also the author of Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945; and editor of Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present. Her most recent article, "Testimonial Incapacity and Criminal Defendants in the South," is part of her current research on the history of 19th century limitations on court testimony. She presently serves on the Committee on College and University Governance for the American Association of University Professors. Prior to taking her current job at the University of Richmond, she taught at MTSU for 20 years.
(Note: Our speaker uses the terms disfranchisement and disenfranchisement interchangeably.)
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Please join us beginning at 6:20 PM so we can start promptly at 6:30.
Topic: January Meeting: Felon Disfranchisement
Time: Jan 12, 2021 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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