Whose Votes Count?
| Author | : Abigail M. Thernstrom |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674951952 |
"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.
Minority Voting In The United States
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Freedom is Not Enough
| Author | : Ronald W. Walters |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780742548060 |
Black voters can make or break a presidential election--look at the close electoral results in 2000 and the difference the disenfranchised Black vote in Florida alone might have made. Black candidates can influence a presidential election--look at the effect that Jesse Jackson had on the Democratic party, the platform, and the electorate in 1984 and 1988, and the contributions to the Democratic debates that Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton made in 2004. American presidential politics can't get along without the Black vote--witness the controversy over candidates' appearing (or not) at the NAACP convention, or the extent to which candidates court (or not) the Black vote in a variety of venues. It all goes back to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which formally gave African Americans the right to vote, even if after all these years that right is continuously contested. In Freedom Is Not Enough (a quote from Lyndon Johnson's 1965 commencement address to Howard University just before he signed the Voting Rights Act), Ronald W. Walters traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2005, and shows why passing a law is not the same as ensuring its enforcement, legitimacy, and opportunity.
One Person, No Vote
| Author | : Carol Anderson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2018-09-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1635571375 |
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 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.
Keeping Down the Black Vote
| Author | : Frances Fox Piven |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
"Keeping Down the Black Vote" offers a controversial examination of how the American political system works to suppress the vote--especially the votes of African Americans and minorities.
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus)
| Author | : Lawrence Goldstone |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2020-01-07 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1338323504 |
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 Turnout Gap
| Author | : Bernard L. Fraga |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2018-11-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108475191 |
Persistent racial/ethnic gaps in voter turnout produce elections that are increasingly unrepresentative of the wishes of all Americans.
Controversies in Minority Voting
| Author | : Bernard N. Grofman |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780815707257 |
Widely regarded as one of the most successful pieces of modern legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has transformed the nature of minority participation and representation in the United States. But with success came controversy as some scholars claim the Act has outlived its usefulness or been subverted in its aim. This volume brings together leading scholars to offer a twenty-five year perspective on the consequences of this landmark act. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, stated that the right of U.S. citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or condition of previous servitude." The South, however, virtually ignored this right, disfranchising blacks through violence, intimidation, literacy tests, and poll taxes. The primary purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to break down these barriers to minority voting. Beginning with chapters covering the key provisions of the Act, the book discusses the way the Act has transformed American politics and looks at the role played by major civil rights groups in lobbying for extensions and amendments to it and in insuring that its provisions would be enforced.
The Fight to Vote
| Author | : Michael Waldman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2022-01-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1982198931 |
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Black Votes Count
| Author | : Frank R. Parker |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2011-03-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807869694 |
Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
| Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : Government publications |
| ISBN | : |
