{"id":125,"date":"2020-09-15T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/19th\/?p=125"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:47:05","slug":"current-trends-in-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/current-trends-in-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Trends in Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nellie Gorbea<br>Wednesday, November 18, 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/b45RpLJK6PxhNPaPA\" title=\"\">Register<\/a>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100358566726749\/posts\/3474169182678987\/\" title=\"\">Watch on facebook<\/a>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/Nellie-Gorbea.jpg\" alt=\"Nellie Gorbea shaking someone's hand.\" class=\"wp-image-128\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea will give a virtual talk linking the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the recent election and current trends in voting rights. Gorbea made history when she was sworn in on Jan. 6, 2015, becoming the first Hispanic elected to statewide office in New England. Together with Elizabeth Francis, executive director of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, she spearheaded \u201cShall Not Be Denied,\u201d a statewide initiative to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The event is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Suffrage Centennial Committee, and the Social Science Institute for Research, Education&nbsp;and Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nellie Gorbea<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/suffrage\/current-trends-in-voting-rights\/\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[244,245,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suffrage","category-suffrage-fall","category-suffrageseres"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}