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URL:https://www.georgiahistory.com/events/how-civic-engagement-changed-ame
 rica-in-the-20th-century/
SUMMARY:How Civic Engagement Changed America in the 20th Century: A Convers
 ation with Dr. Kevin Gaines
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin the Georgia Historical Society for a special conversat
 ion with Dr. Kevin Gaines\, the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and 
 Social Justice at the University of\nVirginia\, and Dr. Stan Deaton\, who 
 holds the Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian position at the Ge
 orgia Historical Society.\n\nTogether\, Gaines and Deaton will explore how
  civic engagement changed America in the years following World War II. How
  did the right to vote and the meaning of citizenship expand and evolve du
 ring those years? How has the right to vote been challenged over time? Wha
 t is the role of frequent\, free\, and open elections\, and how have Ameri
 cans participated in them? What does history say about the peaceful transf
 er of power?\n\nWe hope you’ll join us for a timely conversation about c
 ivic engagement and the ways Americans have participated in and changed Am
 erica over time.\nThe program takes place on Wednesday\, October 14\, 202
 6\, beginning at 7:00 p.m.\, at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library\, 4
 41 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy NE\, in Atlanta.\nThe event is free and open to
  the public.\nView a recording of this event(opens in new tab)\n&nbsp\;\nV
 iew the event postcard.\n\n\n\nIn partnership with\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kevin Ga
 ines\n\n\nKevin K. Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and
  Social Justice at the University of Virginia\, with a joint appointment i
 n the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute f
 or African American and African Studies.  He is author of Uplifting the R
 ace: Black Leadership\, Politics\, and Culture During the Twentieth Centur
 y (University of North Carolina Press\, 1996)\, and American Africans in G
 hana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (UNC Press\, 2006).  His
  forthcoming book is The African American Journey: A Global History (Oxfor
 d University Press).  He is a past president of the American Studies Asso
 ciation (2009-10).\n\nHis essays\, columns\, and reviews on African Americ
 an history\, art\, music\, literature\, and culture have been published in
  major academic journals\, including American Quarterly\, The American His
 torical Review\, The Journal of American History\, American Literary Histo
 ry\, Small Axe\, Radical History Review\, Social Text\, and such newspaper
 s as the New York Times and the Providence Journal.  He has lectured at u
 niversities throughout the U.S. as well as internationally\, in Japan\, Ko
 rea\, England\, Ireland\, France\, Ghana\, South Africa\, and Australia.
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LOCATION:Jimmy Carter Presidential Library\, 441 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy NE
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