Baltimore’s Pratt Library has announced that UMBC’s Tyson D. King-Meadows will read from his new book “When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama” on January 26, 6:30 p.m., at the Central Library (400 Cathedral Street) as part of the library’s Black History Month celebration.
King-Meadows is associate professor of political science at UMBC. Published in August 2011, his new book explores weaknesses in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and argues that the law often enables rather than prevents the disenfranchisement of minorities. King-Meadows is also co-author, with UMBC professor Thomas Schaller, of “Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century.”
