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Panel Discussion Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Date: 9/29/2005

Chair:
Vincent Hutchings, Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, ISR, and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.

Panelists:
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University.

Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, National Council of La Raza, Washington, D.C.

Rick Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law, and Co-Director, New York University Program on Law and Security, NYU School of Law.

LaShawn Y. Warren, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C.

Discussants:
Ellen Katz, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Hanes Walton, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

This event is sponsored by the Center for Political Studies (ISR), Department of Political Science, Ford School of Public Policy, Institute for Social Research, and the Research Center for Group Dynamics (ISR) and is sponsored in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.