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Beyond the voting rights act : the untold story of the struggle to reform America's voter registration laws / Gregory T. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Gregory T, author.
- Series:
- Democracy in times of upheaval ; Volume 2.
- Democracy in times of upheaval ; Volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moore, Gregory T--Political activity.
- Moore, Gregory T.
- United States. National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
- United States.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- Elections--Corrupt practices.
- Elections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- The promise of democracy
- "Our time has come!" : Jesse Jackson and the historic 1984 campaign
- Keeping hope alive and breaking barriers to voting
- Takin' it to the Hill : the battle over H.R. 2190
- The enemy of the good : stuck in the middle
- Back to Selma : taking it to the streets
- The NVRA filibuster breakthrough and 1992 elections
- The final push for passage of NVRA "motor voter" bill
- The states' resistance and the battle for compliance
- The 2000 Florida election debacle
- Post-2000 election and the 9/11 reconfiguration
- The 2004 Ohio election debacle, Katrina and VRA reauthorization
- The Obama phenomenon and the historic 2008 mobilization
- The Shelby decision and the battle to restore the VRA
- The rise of Trump and the movement for Black lives
- Why we still can't wait: to fulfill the promise of democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- 9783110782738
- ISBN:
- 3-11-074247-0
- 9783110742473
- 9783110742565
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