Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America
By Russell Freedman. Illustrated with more than forty photographs, an account of a pivotal event in the history of civil rights. Learn... Read More
Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
By Gary May. Describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as... Read More
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
By Ari Berman. Charts both the transformation of American democracy under the Voting Rights Act and the counterrevolution that has sought to... Read More
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
By Desmond Meade. The personal story of the author’s work in 2018 to successfully restore the voting rights to about 1.4 million... Read More
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
By Carol Anderson. Chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court Shelby County v. Holder... Read More
One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
By Nick Seabrook. Explores the rise of gerrymandering, beginning before the nation’s founding, with the rigging of American elections for partisan and... Read More
Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
By David Garrow. A day-by-day account of how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being as well as an... Read More
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
The Fight to Vote
By Michael Waldman. Traces the story of voting from the Founders’ debates to current restrictions: gerrymandering; voter ID laws; money from conservative... Read More
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
By Zachary Roth. Unearths the deep historical roots of an anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces its modern-day proponents: officials pushing to make it... Read More
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
By Alexander Keyssar. An account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, through... Read More
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
By Charles Bullock, Ronald Gaddie & Justin Wert. Explores the political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral era, detailing the... Read More
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
By Gloria Browne-Marshall. Tells the story of the struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by... Read More