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Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Bending Toward Justice The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Author: Gary May
In theory, African Americans have enjoyed the right to vote since the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. In reality, however, most eligible black citizens were kept from the polls for another hundred years. Until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, large numbers of African Americans?particularly in the Deep South?were disenfranchised th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465018468
ISBN-10: 0465018467
Publication Date: 4/9/2013
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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