The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice

The Voting Rights War

By Gloria Browne-Marshall. Tells the story of the struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court, from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896, through today’s conflicts around voter suppression, challenging obstacles such as: grandfather clauses, all-White primaries, literacy tests, gerrymandering, vote dilution, felony disenfranchisement, and photo identification laws. Learn more.