Bibliograph

One person, no vote, how not all voters are treated equally, Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden

Type

Label

One person, no vote, how not all voters are treated equally, Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-258) and index

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 12 to 17

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 8 to 12

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One person, no vote

Oclc number

1112788513

Responsibility statement

Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden

Sub title

how not all voters are treated equally

Summary

A chronicle of voter suppression exposes America's insidious history of policies that have blocked African American voting participation, placing particular focus on the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby ruling

Table Of Contents

A history of disenfranchisement. Bubbles in a bar of soap ; Poll tax blues ; Only Democrats need apply ; And don't forget the matches ; Here comes the VRA ; The war on the VRA ; A "judicial coup d'état" -- Voter ID. "A citizen no more" ; Florida fiasco, Missouri madness, Hoosier state horrors, and Georgia not so peachy keen ; Floodgates opened wide -- Voter roll purge. And Kemp saw dead people ; Exact match and crosscheck ; A sham and a scam ; "A national champion" -- Rigging the rules. Elbridge Gerry's salamander ; Of the Texas glock, the Georgia flat-cat road kill, and other aberrations ; Gill v. Whitford ; More dirty tricks -- The resistance. Sweet home Alabama? ; Of aborigines and illiterates ; "Selma, Lord, Selma" -- Conclusion. At the crossroads

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification