Bard College Center for Civic Engagement Cosponsors Talk on Book About Student Voting Rights
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Cecil B. Day Chapel, The Carter Center
Cecil B. Day Chapel, The Carter Center | 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE | Atlanta, GA
On January 13th, The Carter Center, at the Cecil B. Day Chapel, is hosting a special talk on a book and four short documentaries focusing on the fight for voting rights on US college campuses cosponsored by The Carter Center, the Bard College Center for Civic Engagement, and the United Negro College Fund. The book, Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses, uses the history of the 26th Amendment and the ongoing fight to promote and defend youth voting rights as a prism through which to teach the history of the struggle for the fundamental right to vote in the United States.
The event, The Fight for American Democracy: Student Voting, Civil Rights and the Promise of the 26th Amendment - The Carter Center, takes place on January 13th at 7:00 pm at The Carter Center, Cecil B. Day Chapel, 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE, Atlanta, GA. It will feature a reading and conversation with book editors and authors representing Bard College, Tuskegee University, the North Carolina A&T State University and the United Negro College Fund.
The event will feature talks by coeditors Jonathan Becker, professor of political studies, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and Yael Bromberg, Esq., a constitutional rights litigator, leading legal scholar of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and election law professor at American University Washington College of Law. Other speakers include Jelani Favors, vice president of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund, Lisa Bratton, an associate professor of History at Tuskegee University, and Erin Cannan, Bard College’s vice president for Civic Engagement. The talk will be moderated by Sierra Ford, the speaker of the Bard College student body, Atlanta Posse Scholar, and former Carter Center United States Elections Democracy Intern.
Reservations are required and can be secured here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822