The Right to Vote

The Right to Vote
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465010148

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

The Right to Vote

The Right to Vote
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465005020

A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary factors for delaying such rights have been class tension and conflict. Reprint.

The Right to Vote

The Right to Vote
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465010148

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

The Fight to Vote

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.

Evicted!

Evicted!
Author: Alice Faye Duncan
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684379792

Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People's Book Prize for Social Justice This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history. The late 1950s was a turbulent time in Fayette County, Tennessee. Black and White children went to different schools. Jim Crow signs hung high. And while Black hands in Fayette were free to work in the nearby fields as sharecroppers, the same Black hands were barred from casting ballots in public elections. If they dared to vote, they faced threats of violence by the local Ku Klux Klan or White citizens. It wasn't until Black landowners organized registration drives to help Black citizens vote did change begin--but not without White farmers' attempts to prevent it. They violently evicted Black sharecroppers off their land, leaving families stranded and forced to live in tents. White shopkeepers blacklisted these families, refusing to sell them groceries, clothes, and other necessities. But the voiceless did finally speak, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which legally ended voter discrimination. Perfect for young readers, teachers/librarians, and parents interested in books for kids with themes of: Activism Social justice Civil rights Black history

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights
Author: Richard Sobel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107128293

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.

Lillian's Right to Vote

Lillian's Right to Vote
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385390300

An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky—she sees her family’s history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall America’s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard. "Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people’s fight for access to the ballot box." —The New York Times "A much-needed picture book that will enlighten a new generation about battles won and a timely call to uphold these victories in the present." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred "A valuable introduction to and overview of the civil rights movement." —Publishers Weekly, Starred "An important book that will give you goose bumps." —Booklist, Starred

A Look at the Nineteenth Amendment

A Look at the Nineteenth Amendment
Author: Helen Koutras Bozonelis
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781598450675

Discusses the history of the women's suffrage amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Vote!

Vote!
Author: Coral Celeste Frazer
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541528158

Looks at the history of women's suffrage, focusing on leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and others.

Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Institutions and the Right to Vote in America
Author: Martha E. Kropf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-05-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137301716

This book explores how the United States institutions of democracy have affected a citizen’s ability to participate in politics. The 2000 election and the ensuing decade of research demonstrated that that the institutions of elections vitally affect participation. This book examines turnout and vote choice, as well as elections as an institution, administration of elections and the intermediaries that affect a citizen’s ability to cast a vote as intended. Kropf traces the institutions of franchise from the Constitutional Convention through the 2012 election and the general themes of how institutions have changed increasing, democratization and production federal growth over time in the United States.