This event took place on Thursday, October 17, 2013 in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome Banquet Room on the campus of Alabama State University. The first session includes:

Moderator: Joseph Caver, historian and author, instructor, ASU Department of History and Political Science

Discussant: Alecia D. Hoffman, instructor, ASU Department of History and Political Science

Panelists:

“Voting Rights in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era” by Dr. Bertis English, Professor of History/Associate Dean, ASU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

“The Challenge to African-American Voting Rights in Alabama during the Era of Disfranchisement” by Dr. Byrdie Larkin, Professor of Political Science, ASU

“African-American Voting Rights in Alabama during the Early Twentieth Century, 1900-1930” by Dr. Robert J. Norrell, Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville