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Contact: Julia Wood
(865) 694-6405
September 14, 2015
Pellissippi State Announcements, Sept. 14
“Voting Rights Act of 1965: What’s Our Responsibility?” is the title of a panel
discussion at Pellissippi State Community College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus, 1610 E.
Magnolia Ave, at 12:55 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22. Panelists Virgil Davis, Pellissippi State
faculty member; Daniel Brown, Knoxville city councilman; Rev. Gordon Gibson, Civil
Rights activist; and Phyllis Nichols, president of Knoxville Area Urban League, will
discuss the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the responsibility of citizens to vote and the
consequences of not voting. Panel moderator is Georgiana Vines, Knoxville News
Sentinel columnist. Event is free and open to the community.