As millions of voters visit the polls to cast their vote this Super Tuesday, we want to share some exciting news about the work that goes on behind the scenes in Special Collections and University Archives. Librarians are busy preparing the next gallery exhibition, to be installed in 2021, which will explore the history of voting rights in the United States. An online exhibit will be available in the Fall.
The people who have organized at the local level have been incredibly important to voters’ rights and their local stories make up the larger national story of changes to American voting rights throughout this nation’s history. “Get Out the Vote”, the upcoming exhibition will feature material from our collections that illustrate the history and stories of those who have organized to “get out the vote.”
Individual items are marked prior to digitization 
Narrow selection of material relating to efforts made to expand voting rights 
Book of clippings of articles from Maryland newspapers about efforts to disenfranchise voters in the early 1900s 
Photograph of women suffragists in Washington DC 
Article about disenfranchisement in Lousiana 
Material from the Second Look fair from student groups engaged in political activism
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