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Book

One person, no vote : how voter suppression is destroying our democracy

Call Number

  • 324.62 A5457 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Physical Description

xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby ruling, which allowed districts to change voting requirments without approval from the Department of Justice.

Contents

  • A history of disfranchisement
  • Voter ID
  • Voter roll purge
  • Rigging the rules
  • The Resistance
  • At the crossroads of half slave, half free.

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