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    The Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress' new traveling exhibit, 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans is available to rent or purchase.  RESERVE TODAY

    100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans

    Reserve Your Dates Now to Display Our New Traveling Exhibit at Your Organization

    The Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress marks the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 with a new traveling exhibit, 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans. The seven-banner exhibit explores Native American Voting Rights long before the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 as well as how the Act failed to ensure Native American participation in elections. The passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was neither the beginning nor the end of the struggle to gain voting rights for Native Americans. The exhibit spotlights tribal leaders and less known, yet extraordinary voting rights activists from all walks of life. The traveling exhibit builds off the success of its predecessors that reached over 225 venues nationwide: Magna Carta (2015-2018), 19th Amendment (2019-2022), and Mayflower Compact (2022-2023). Our new exhibit is on display nationwide through 2024 at law schools, state capitol buildings, state and local bar associations, courthouses, law firms, and national and local conferences. You are invited to display the traveling exhibit. To reserve the exhibit, please contact Anne P. Brown. Director, Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress at [email protected].

     Rent or Purchase the exhibit - on Native American Voting Rights

    Join In! The Rise of Self-Governance & American Organizing: Mayflower Compact to the Modern Day

    February 3, 2023: New Orleans, LA, 9:00-10:30 AM, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Ballroom A & B, 5th Floor

    Join In! The Rise of American Organizing: Democracy, Civil Society, and the American Bar Association. Keynote address by Johann Neem, Professor of History at Western Washington University. Professor Neem’s presentation will frame a discussion drawn from his book Creating a Nation of Joiners, examining the development of civil society following American independence and setting the stage for a panel discussion of the important role of coalition-building and professional associations in advancing societal and systemic change as well as safeguarding the rule of law. Former ABA President Judy Perry Martinez will facilitate the panel discussion.

    ABA Day 2024, SAVE THE DATE: April 9-11 | Washington, DC

    More information on ABA Day events will be posted soon. Stay tuned. Thank you.

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    Expanding Democracy: Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement

    The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not guarantee full voting rights for all women. The long-fought struggle for the right to vote for Indigenous/Native, Black/African, Latina, and Asian American suffragists continued beyond 1920. Today, an ongoing struggle for voting inclusivity continues with a clarion call to take on present-day voter suppression.

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    Indigenous/Native American Suffragist: Zitkála-Šá

    Learn More: Latina American - Adelina Otero-Warren

    "100 Years after the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future"