"The Right to Vote — Then and Now: Access to the Polls from the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to the Elections of 2012" will be the topic of a talk by The Honorable Gordon A. Martin, Jr. on April 25 at 7:30 PM in the Wayland High School lecture room. This free lecture is sponsored by the Leagues of Women Voters of Wayland, Weston and Sudbury.
The Honorable Gordon A. Martin, Jr., served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court for 20 years. In the early 1990s, he headed the Roxbury District Court in Boston, which handled the most drug, gun, and domestic violence cases in the state. Previously, he was a founding partner of the law firm Martin, Morse, Wylie & Kaplan; Commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; Chair of Boston's Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse; Associate Professor at Northeastern University School of Law; Special Assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy; First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts; and a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
He is Adjunct Professor of Law at New England School of Law and has been a visiting professor at the law schools of Tulane, San Diego, and the University of Mississippi. He coauthored "Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives" in 1995 and has published articles in a number of law reviews and other publications. His most recent book, "Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote" (2010) is published by the University Press of Mississippi.
