Bring Back The Poll Tax The Gop War On Voting Rights
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Bring Back The Poll Tax The Gop War On Voting Rights
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Author : Earl Ofari Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Middle Passage Press
Release Date : 2021-07-09
Bring Back The Poll Tax The Gop War On Voting Rights written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson and has been published by Middle Passage Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-09 with History categories.
In Bring Back the Poll Tax! The GOP War on Voting Rights Earl Ofari Hutchinson explains this and much more: *"Write in the space below a section of the Mississippi Constitution and interpret it" 1955 Mississippi Literacy Test Question- *How Major Corporations Bankroll voter suppression laws *Florida and Georgia's purge of thousands of Black and Hispanic voters prevented the election of Black Governors in those states *How Felon vote bans still disenfranchise millions of Blacks in nearly all states *How Trump won the White House with vote suppression *How GOP controlled state legislatures control the voting process *Why the GOP will never do away with the Electoral College *The GOP Plan to take Back Congress and the White House in 2022 and 2024
The Politics Of Voter Suppression
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Author : Tova Andrea Wang
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-27
The Politics Of Voter Suppression written by Tova Andrea Wang and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-27 with Political Science categories.
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today. Wang argues that activities that suppress voting are almost always illegitimate, while reforms that increase participation are nearly always legitimate. In short, use and abuse of election laws and policies to suppress votes has obvious detrimental impacts on democracy itself. Such activities are also harmful because of their direct impacts on actual election outcomes. Wang regards as beneficial any legal effort to increase the number of Americans involved in the electoral system. This includes efforts that are focused on improving voter turnout among certain populations typically regarded as supporting one party, as long as the methods and means for boosting participation are open to all. Wang identifies and describes a number of specific legitimate and positive reforms that will increase voter turnout.
The Fight To Vote
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Author : Michael Waldman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-01-18
The Fight To Vote written by Michael Waldman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with History categories.
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Bending Toward Justice
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Author : Gary May
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Bending Toward Justice written by Gary May and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot. In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders -- as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional. A vivid, fast-paced history of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, Bending Toward Justice offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot -- although, as May shows, the fight for voting rights is by no means over.
The Great Melding
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Author : Glenn Feldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2015-08-31
The Great Melding written by Glenn Feldman and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-31 with History categories.
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman's groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
The Right To Vote
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Author : Alexander Keyssar
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Right To Vote written by Alexander Keyssar and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.
Amendment Xv Race And The Right To Vote
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Author : Jeff Hay
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2009-05-29
Amendment Xv Race And The Right To Vote written by Jeff Hay and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-29 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
The right to vote was not always granted to all Americans, which is a horrible blemish on American history, nevertheless this crucial right is held under the Fifteenth Amendment. Readers will examine its historical background, its challenges, and its successes. Readers will come to understand the necessity of ensuring voting rights in contemporary America.
States Of Confusion
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Author : Don Waisanen
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-01-03
States Of Confusion written by Don Waisanen and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-03 with Law categories.
Shows the maddening difficulties that voter ID requirements create for participants in US democracy and offers concrete solutions for every person’s vote and voice to count Over the past decade, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of voter ID laws has skyrocketed, limiting the ability of nearly twenty-five million eligible voters from exercising their constitutional right to cast a vote. In States of Confusion, Don Waisanen, Sonia Jarvis, and Nicole Gordon explore this crisis and the difficulties it has created for American voters, offering practical solutions for this increasingly important problem. Focusing on ten states with the strictest voter documentation requirements, the authors show how people face major barriers to exercising their fundamental democratic right to vote and are therefore slipping through the cracks of our electoral system. They explore voter experiences by drawing on hundreds of online surveys, audits of 150 election offices, community focus groups, and more. Waisanen, Jarvis, and Gordon call on policymakers to adopt uniform national voter identification standards that are simple, accessible, and cost-free. States of Confusion offers a comprehensive and up-to-date look at the voter ID crisis in our country, as well solutions for practitioners, government agencies, and citizens.
Making Sense Of American Liberalism
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Author : Jonathan Bell
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Making Sense Of American Liberalism written by Jonathan Bell and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Political Science categories.
This collection of thoughtful and timely essays offers refreshing and intelligent new perspectives on postwar American liberalism. Sophisticated yet accessible, Making Sense of American Liberalism challenges popular myths about liberalism in the United States. The volume presents the Democratic Party and liberal reform efforts such as civil rights, feminism, labor, and environmentalism as a more united, more radical force than has been depicted in scholarship and the media emphasizing the decline and disunity of the left. Distinguished contributors assess the problems liberals have confronted in the twentieth century, examine their strategies for reform, and chart the successes and potential for future liberal reform. Contributors are Anthony J. Badger, Jonathan Bell, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Hartmann, Ella Howard, Bruce Miroff, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug Rossinow, Timothy Stanley, and Timothy Thurber.
One Person No Vote
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Author : Carol Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-09-11
One Person No Vote written by Carol Anderson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Political Science categories.
As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction An NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling-and timely-history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.