Bending Toward Justice The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

Name: Bending Toward Justice The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
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ISBN: 9780465018468

ISBN-10: 0465018467

ISBN-13: 9780465018468

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gary May

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In theory, African Americans have enjoyed the right to vote since the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. In reality, however, most eligible black citizens were kept from the polls for another hundred years. Until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, large numbers of African Americansparticularly in the Deep Southwere disenfranchised through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as literary tests, poll taxes, and property requirements. InBending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how activists surmounted these long-standing obstacles, overcoming centuries of bigotry to secureand preservethe right of black citizens to full participation in…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English