Democracy’s Doorstep: Reapportionment and the Quest for Equality in Twentieth Century America

Democracy’s Doorstep: Reapportionment and the Quest for Equality in Twentieth Century America

J. Douglas Smith (History, Occidental College)
Friday, May 7 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041

Professor Smith’s Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia appeared in 2002. His current project examines one of the nation’s most serious but understudied distortions of the idea of “one person, one vote.”

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.