Voting Rights in America: A Reference Handbook
- ISBN-10
- 1440870926
- ISBN-13
- 9781440870927
- Series
- Voting Rights in America
- Category
- Suffrage
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Authors
- Richard A. Glenn, Kyle L. Kreider
Description
Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States. Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Following a historical overview is an examination of current controversies in addition to profiles of key persons and reprint important documents. The book also includes a perspectives chapter featuring ten original essays on various topics related to voting rights, as well as an annotated bibliography and chronology. The variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays about voting rights, a timeline, and useful terms in the voting rights discourse, allow this book to stand out from others in the field. It is intended for readers at the high school through community college levels, along with adult readers who are interested in the topic. Does not assume prior knowledge about the history of voting rights, fully informing students and other readers on the topic Seeks primarily to explain voting rights, rather than to provide advocacy or criticism Provides a balanced analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of many of the current controversies surrounding voting rights Rounds out the authors' expertise in perspective essays that give readers a diversity of viewpoints on the topic
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-12-02
- 434 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
-
- 1992
- 212 pages
- Paperback
- Leadership Conference Education Fund
Similar books
-
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
By Ari BermanLBJ underlined important words on his reading copy for emphasis: Lexington, Concord, Appomattox, Selma. “I could feel the tension in the chamber,” LBJ later wrote. “I could hear the emotion in the echoes of my words.
-
Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America
By Deborah DiesenLearn all about the history of voting rights in the United States—from our nation’s founding to the present day—in this powerful picture book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Pout-Pout Fish.
-
State Voting Laws in America: Historical Statutes and Their Modern Implications
By M. Smith, K. Anderson, C. RackawayState Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitutes a legitimate right to vote.
-
America Votes!: A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights
By Benjamin E. GriffithThis detailed snapshot of America's voting and electoral practices, problems, and most current issues addresses a variety of fundamental areas concerning election law from a federal perspective, with coverage of such topics as voter ...
-
The Future of the Voting Rights Act
By Sharyn O’HalloranIn The Future of the Voting Rights Act, David Epstein, Rodolfo de la Garza, Sharyn O'Halloran, and Richard Pildes bring together leading historians, political scientists, and legal scholars to assess the role Section 5 should play in ...
-
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
By Alexander Keyssar... 1990), 86-87; John L. Brooke, The Heart cf the Commonwealth (New York, 1989), 247-248; Rush Welter, The Mind ofAmerica, ... Jack R. Pole, “Suffrage Reform and the American Revolution in New Jersey,” Proceedings cy" the New jersey ...
-
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
By Gloria J. Browne-MarshallThe Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court.
-
Voting Rights Under Fire: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color
By Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. ClemonsAlthough Florida underwent developments under Governor Charlie Crist resulting in the liberalization of felon ... Upon taking office in 2011, Crist's successor Rick Scott amended the Clemency Board rules to limit sharply voting rights ...
-
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present
By Allan J. LichtmanAn award-winning historian and voting right activist, Allan Lichtman gives us the history behind today’s headlines.
-
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus)
By Lawrence GoldstoneThough this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book.