Beyond the Voting Rights Act : : The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America's Voter Registration Laws / / Gregory T. Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Gregory T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 243 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- About the Author and the Series Editor -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 The Promise of Democracy -- Chapter 2 “Our Time Has Come!” – Jesse Jackson and the Historic 1984 Campaign -- Chapter 3 Keeping Hope Alive and Breaking Barriers to Voting -- Chapter 4 Takin’ It to the Hill: The Battle over H.R. 2190 -- Chapter 5 The Enemy of the Good: Stuck in the Middle -- Chapter 6 Back to Selma: Taking It to the Streets -- Chapter 7 The NVRA Filibuster Breakthrough and 1992 Elections -- Chapter 8 The Final Push for Passage of NVRA “Motor Voter” Bill -- Chapter 9 The States’ Resistance and the Battle for Compliance -- Chapter 10 The 2000 Florida Election Debacle -- Chapter 11 Post-2000 Election and the 9/11 Reconfiguration -- Chapter 12 The 2004 Ohio Election Debacle, Katrina and VRA Reauthorization -- Chapter 13 The Obama Phenomenon and the Historic 2008 Mobilization -- Chapter 14 The Shelby Decision and the Battle to Restore the VRA -- Chapter 15 The Rise of Trump and the Movement for Black Lives -- Epilogue Why We Still Can’t Wait: To Fulfill the Promise of Democracy -- References