Beyond the Voting Rights Act

Beyond the Voting Rights Act
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9783110742565
ISBN-13 : 311074256X
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Voting Rights Act by : Gregory T. Moore

Download or read book Beyond the Voting Rights Act written by Gregory T. Moore and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author’s perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s, who reluctantly became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an integral part of the ultimate legislative victory


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