I just discovered that in her recent publication in the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy Melanie Campbell cited my article on voting rights for New Orleans evacuees.
Benjamin Greenberg reported in his In These Times article on 17 November 2005, that there are roughly 219,000 New Orleans evacuees who are voting age [over the age of 18] and estimates that 70 percent of those are Black, which represents 153,300 Black voters who will not have access to the ballot in the 2006 elections. “This is voter disenfranchisement by attrition,” states Greenberg (Greenberg 2005).
(Melanie Campbell, "Right of Return Means Access to the Ballot, Access to Neighborhoods,and Access to Economic Opportunity [pdf]," Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, Volume XII (2006).)
My same article was also cited in congresssional testimony by Wade Henderson, Executive Director Leadership Conference on Civil Rights:
HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE "VOTING RIGHTS ACT: EVIDENCE OF CONTINUED NEED [pdf]" MARCH 8, 2006.
Maybe I'm bragging a little, but it's great to find that my work has had some lasting value.
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