The Struggle for Voting Rights at Colleges

Photo by Frank Q Brown, courtesy of University of California, Department of Special Collections
Fall 2024
Course Description
The course is a historical and interdisciplinary examination of the 26th Amendment, using it as a prism to examine the history of disenfranchisement, the role of college communities, and the fight for voting rights in the United States. The materials developed for this course are Open Educational Resources and free to use for non-commercial purposes. View the course materials.

Bard College offers this course under the name "Student Voting: Power, Politics and Race in the Fight for American Democracy".
Tuskegee University offers this course under the name "The Black Experience".

This course counts toward the Civic Engagement Certificate and the Human Rights Certificate.
Campuses Offering the Course
Bard College
North Carolina A&T
Prairie View A&M University
Tuskegee University
Instructors
Jonathan Becker, Bard College
Lisa Bratton, Tuskegee University
Jelani Favors, North Carolina A&T
Simon Gilhooley, Bard College
Melanye Price, Prairie View A&M University