About this Event
Join Historic Macon and the Douglass Theatre for a presentation given by Dr. Steve Suitts, author of, _A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America_. We will serve light refreshments at 5:30 and the presentation will begin at 6.
In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
It is the story of how that crucial, tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Douglass Theatre, 355 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Macon, United States
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