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SUMMARY:Who Can Vote? A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US exhibit at the Columbus Lowndes Public Library
DESCRIPTION:The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System is hosting the traveling exhibit Who Can Vote? A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US\, organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, from June 26-August 21\, 2026. \nThe Who Can Vote? exhibition examines voting rights\, emphasizing the role of the US Constitution and the interplay between the states and federal government in determining who is allowed to vote. Beginning with the founding era and going up to the election of 2000\, this exhibition explores the complex history of the right to vote that forms the core of our nation’s democracy. Topics include voting as a constitutional right\, women’s suffrage\, Reconstruction and Jim Crow era voting rights\, the Civil Rights Movement\, and the enfranchisement of Indigenous peoples. \nThe exhibit is open to the public and available for viewing during regular operating hours Monday through Thursday 9am to 6pm\, Fridays 9am to 2pm\, and Saturdays 9am to 2pm.​ \nTo learn more about the exhibit\, visit www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/traveling-exhibitions/who-can-vote-brief-history-voting-rights-us.  \nFor more information on the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, visit www.gilderlehrman.org. \nFor more information\, call the CLPLS at 662-329-5300.
URL:https://www.visitcolumbusms.org/event/who-can-vote-a-brief-history-of-voting-rights-in-the-us-exhibit-at-the-columbus-lowndes-public-library/
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SUMMARY:The Challenges of the First Fifty Years of Women’s Suffrage Dr. Rebecca Tuuri
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rebecca Tuuri will present The Challenges of the First Fifty Years of Women’s Suffrage on Wednesday\, July 15 at 12 noon at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. \nDr. Tuuri’s presentation examines the first fifty years of the women’s suffrage in Mississippi\, with a focus on the work of the Mississippi League of Women Voters (LWV) from the months before the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment through the late 1960s when the state’s League was transformed into the progressive and interracial group that it is today. Nationally\, the LWV was the organization that suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt founded in 1920 to replace the National American Woman Suffrage Association and to help educate the newly enfranchised woman voters in America. Therefore\, the LWV in Mississippi was arguably the most important women’s voting organization in the state. This talk illuminates the successes and challenges of Mississippi women’s early efforts to empower voting women around the state.​ \nDr. Tuuri is an assistant professor of African American and American history at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her current manuscript\, Careful Crusader: The History of the National Council of Negro Women in Black Freedom Struggle investigates the history of the civil war rights work of the largest black women’s organization in the 1960s and 1970s.​ \nThis program is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau. \nFor more information\, call the CLPLS at 662-329-5300.
URL:https://www.visitcolumbusms.org/event/he-challenges-of-the-first-fifty-years-of-womens-suffrage-dr-rebecca-tuuri/
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