Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy
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 succ... Full description
- 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.