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Diversity at the Ballot Box: Electoral Politics and Maine’s Minority Communities, Post-WWII to the P |
When: |
October 6, 2008 – January 23, 2009 |
Description: |
4th Annual Exhibition of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine
“Diversity at the Ballot Box” examines how Maine’s African American, Jewish and LGBT minorities have both benefited by and been hampered in their efforts to gain civil rights and to ensure their social and economic welfare through the political system. Among the themes examined in this exhibition are the struggle to end social, racial, and religious discrimination in housing and in the exclusivity of private social clubs, minorities and the electoral process, and the efforts to ensure the expansion of Maine’s Human Rights Act to include the LGBT community.
Visitors will better understand the main exhibition through a brief examination of the earliest struggles of Maine’s Native American, Franco American, and Irish communities against the nativist and racist Know Nothing (American) Party of the 1850s and Maine’s own Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. In addition, this brief overview will also highlight a number of Maine’s new refugee and immigrant communities and the political issues they face in the twenty-first century.
Open during regular library hours.
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Where: |
6th floor Glickman Library, USM Portland Campus |
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Cost: |
Free and open to the public |
For More Infomation: |
If you would like to schedule a gallery talk for a group, please contact Susie R. Bock, 207-780-4269, bocks@usm.maine.edu. |
Parking: |
Please use the parking garage on Bedford St. Simply pull a ticket upon entering the garage and keep it with you. Before going back to your car, stop by the Parking and Transportation Services office at the entrance of the garage and pay the fee, which is 50 cents per half hour. There is no cashier or way to pay at the exit of the garage.
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Directions: |
For directions:
http://usm.maine.edu/discover/maps.html
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