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    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
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    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

    By Jim Downs, Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson and

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    Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.

    Perhaps most notably, former state legislator Stacey Abrams’s campaign for Georgia's gubernatorial race drew national attention after she narrowly lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, who had removed hundreds of thousands of voters from the official rolls. After her loss, Abrams created Fair Fight, a multimillion-dollar initiative to combat voter suppression in twenty states.

    At an annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, leading scholars Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, and Heather Anne Thompson had a conversation with Abrams about the long history of voter suppression at the Library Company of Philadelphia. This book is a transcript of that extraordinary conversation, edited by Jim Downs.

    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections offers an enlightening, history-informed conversation about voter disenfranchisement in the United States. By gathering scholars and activists whose work has provided sharp analyses of this issue, we see how historians in general explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.

    The book also includes a “top ten” selection of essays and articles by such writers as journalist Ari Berman, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Blight, and civil rights icon John Lewis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
    Release dateJun 15, 2020
    ISBN9780820357751
    Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
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    Stacey Abrams

    Stacey Abrams is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rogue Justice, While Justice Sleeps, Our Time is Now, Lead from the Outside, and the NAACP Image Award winners Stacey’s Extraordinary Words and Stacey’s Remarkable Books. She is also an entrepreneur and a political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels. Committed to the pursuit of equity, she works to break barriers for young people, people of color, and the marginalized through her work in politics as well as the nonprofit and corporate sectors. She has received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.

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      a transcript of sharp and razor focus of historians and politicians who are aware of how important the black vote is and how the forces are obsessed in suppressing it.
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      This author is a JOKE! Trash all the way !

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