Session 1: Felon Disfranchisement & Civil Disability: Black Codes for the Twenty-First Century

Introductions: Manning Marable, Director, Africana Criminal Justice Project, and Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University.

Chris Uggen, Sociology, U. of Minnesota
“Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000.”

Marc Mauer, Assistant Director of The Sentencing Project
co-editor of Invisible Punishment: Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment.

Peter Wagner, Co-Director of Prison Policy Initiative
“Felon Disenfranchisement, the Census and the Three-Fifths Clause.”

Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Lead Attorney, Hayden v. Pataki, Challenging Disfranchisement in New York.

Joseph Hayden, Plaintiff in Recently Filed Case, Hayden v. Pataki, Challenging Disfranchisement in New York.

Session 2: Resisting Injustice: Reports from the Frontlines

Introductions: Manning Marable, Director, Africana Criminal Justice Project, and Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University.

Julia Sudbury, Sociology, Mills College
Founding member of Critical Resistance, Delegate to the recent International Conference on Penal Abolition (Nigeria).

Angela Y. Davis, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz 
Founding member of Critical Resistance.

Van Jones, Executive Director,Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Organizer in the Books Not Bars Campaign.

Eddie Ellis, President of the Community Justice Center, Inc. Founding member of Nu-Leadership Policy Group.