The Voting Rights War
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The Voting Rights War
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Author : Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-08-22
The Voting Rights War written by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Law categories.
The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through today’s conflicts around voter suppression. The NAACP brought important cases to the Supreme Court that challenged obstacles to voting: grandfather clauses, all-White primaries, literacy tests, gerrymandering, vote dilution, felony disenfranchisement, and photo identification laws. This book highlights the challenges facing American voters, especially African Americans, the brave work of NAACP members, and the often contentious relationship between the NAACP and the Supreme Court. This book shows the human price paid for the right to vote and the intellectual stamina needed for each legal battle. The Voting Rights War follows conflicts on the ground and in the courtroom, from post-slavery voting rights and the formation of the NAACP to its ongoing work to gain a basic right guaranteed to every citizen. Whether through litigation, lobbying, or protest, the NAACP continues to play an unprecedented role in the battle for voting equality in America, fighting against prison gerrymandering, racial redistricting, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and more. The Voting Rights War highlights the NAACP’s powerful contribution and legacy.
The Hidden History Of The War On Voting
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Author : Thom Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The Hidden History Of The War On Voting written by Thom Hartmann and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Law categories.
"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."—Booklist America's #1 progressive radio host looks at how elites have long tried to disenfranchise citizens—particularly people of color, women, and the poor—and shows what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy. In today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in our system, it's a feature. Thom Hartmann unveils the strategies and tactics that conservative elites in this country have used, from the foundation of the Electoral College to the latest voter ID laws, to protect their interests by preventing “the wrong people”—such as the poor, women, and people of color—from voting while making it more convenient for the wealthy and white. But he also lays out a wide variety of simple, commonsense ways that we the people can fight back and reclaim our right to rule through the ballot box.
Suffrage Reconstructed
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Author : Laura E. Free
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-04
Suffrage Reconstructed written by Laura E. Free 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 2015-09-04 with History categories.
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women’s rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women’s inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment’s congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one’s capacity to vote. Stanton’s actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War–era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women’s rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.
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.
Stolen Justice The Struggle For African American Voting Rights Scholastic Focus
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Author : Lawrence Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Stolen Justice The Struggle For African American Voting Rights Scholastic Focus written by Lawrence Goldstone and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States. Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army of occupation. Yet, even that was not enough to ensure that African American voices would be heard, or their lives protected. White supremacists loudly and intentionally prevented black Americans from voting -- and they were willing to kill to do so.In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote for young adults, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow. Though this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book.
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.
Let Us Vote
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Author : Jennifer Frost
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Let Us Vote written by Jennifer Frost and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with History categories.
The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age “Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built a movement for the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1971. This was the last time that the United States significantly expanded voting rights. Jennifer Frost deftly illustrates how the political and social movements of the time brought together bipartisan groups to work tirelessly in pursuit of a lower voting age. In turn, she illuminates the process of achieving political change, with the convergence of “top-down” initiatives and “bottom-up” mobilization, coalition-building, and strategic flexibility. As she traces the progress toward achieving youth suffrage throughout the ’60s, Frost reveals how this movement built upon the social justice initiatives of the decade and was deeply indebted to the fight for African American civil and voting rights. 2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of this important constitutional amendment and comes at a time when scrutiny of both voting age and voting rights has been renewed. As the national conversation around climate crisis, gun violence, and police brutality creates a new call for a lower voting age, “Let Us Vote!” provides an essential investigation of how this massive political change occurred, and how it could be brought about again.
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 Hidden History Of The War On Voting
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Author : Thom Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-02-11
The Hidden History Of The War On Voting written by Thom Hartmann and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-11 with Political Science categories.
"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."--Booklist America's #1 progressive radio host looks at how elites have long tried to disenfranchise citizens--particularly people of color, women, and the poor--and shows what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy. In today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in our system, it's a feature. Thom Hartmann unveils the strategies and tactics that conservative elites in this country have used, from the foundation of the Electoral College to the latest voter ID laws, to protect their interests by preventing "the wrong people"--such as the poor, women, and people of color--from voting while making it more convenient for the wealthy and white. But he also lays out a wide variety of simple, commonsense ways that we the people can fight back and reclaim our right to rule through the ballot box.
Voting Rights In America
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Author : Karen McGill Arrington
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1992
Voting Rights In America written by Karen McGill Arrington and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political Science categories.
This volume presents an edited collection of twelve papers from a conference hosted by the Leadership Conference Education Fund on '200 Years of Expanding the Franchise.' The authors, noted scholars, elected officials, advocates, and community leaders, include Bill Clinton, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Damon J. Keith, historian Mary Frances Berry, political scientist Charles V. Hamilton, and others. The volume explores the history of voting rights, beginning with the debates on the franchise at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the compromises that left minorities and women without the vote. It discusses the Civil War Amendments and the long struggle to improve our democratic system through eight more amendments regarding voting rights. Finally, it examines the judicial and legislative victories that have been the means for expansion of the franchise and the contemporary struggles to bring all Americans into full electoral participation. Co-published with the Leadership Conference Education Fund.