One Person, One Vote: Veteran Civil Rights Activist Courtland Cox Talks Voting Rights

Tuesday was Constitution Day, the anniversary of the signing of America’s founding document in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. For the last several years, the MD Institute College of Art here in Baltimore has held a Constitution Day Symposium to discuss various issues of the day related to the Constitution. This year’s panel will include Courtland Cox, a civil rights activist who was with the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, when he was a student at Howard University. In the 1970s, he served as the Secretary General of the Sixth Pan-African Congress and international meeting of African people in Tanzania. He also served in the Clinton Administration as the Director of the Minority Business Development Agency. He is currently a consultant with the school system in Washington, DC. He joins us on the line from Washington.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.