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Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Annual Fall Symposium

Saturday, October 29, 2005
12:30-5:00 p.m.

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Retracing the Struggle:
The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

I. From Civil Rights to Voting Rights: The History (12:45 – 2:00)

Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winning historian
Alex Keyssar, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Harris Wofford, Former U.S. Senator
Moderated by James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly

II. The Social and Political Impact of the Voting Rights Act (2:15 – 3:30)

Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute
Patricia Williams, Columbia Law School
Moderated by Alan Wolfe, Boston College

III. Voting Rights and Electoral Politics Today (3:45 – 5:00)

Roger Clegg, Center for Equal Opportunity
Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
John Lewis, United States Congress (D-GA)
Moderated by Mark Starr, Newsweek Magazine

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