The Resource Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy, Gary May
Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy, Gary May
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- Summary
- In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders - as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 314 pages
- Contents
-
- Prologue: The most powerful instrument
- Planting the First Seed
- An Ideal Place
- "Give Us the Ballot!"
- Nothing Can Stop Us
- To the Promised Land
- The Die Is Cast
- Breaking down injustice
- Where the Votes Are
- The Struggle of a Lifetime
- Isbn
- 9780465018468
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy
- Title
- Bending toward justice
- Title remainder
- the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy
- Statement of responsibility
- Gary May
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders - as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- May, Gary
- Dewey number
- 342.73/072
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF4893
- LC item number
- .M39 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- United States.
- Minorities
- Election law
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy, Gary May
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-301) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: The most powerful instrument -- Planting the First Seed -- An Ideal Place -- "Give Us the Ballot!" -- Nothing Can Stop Us -- To the Promised Land -- The Die Is Cast -- Breaking down injustice -- Where the Votes Are -- The Struggle of a Lifetime
- Control code
- ocn815043435
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xix, 314 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465018468
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012039652
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)815043435
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy, Gary May
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-301) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: The most powerful instrument -- Planting the First Seed -- An Ideal Place -- "Give Us the Ballot!" -- Nothing Can Stop Us -- To the Promised Land -- The Die Is Cast -- Breaking down injustice -- Where the Votes Are -- The Struggle of a Lifetime
- Control code
- ocn815043435
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xix, 314 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465018468
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012039652
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)815043435
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