Stolen justice, the struggle for African-American voting rights, Lawrence Goldstone ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Type
Label
Stolen justice, the struggle for African-American voting rights, Lawrence Goldstone ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225- 231) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Intended audience
Ages 12+Grades 9-121310L, Lexile
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Stolen justice
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Lawrence Goldstone ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, MG+, 9.6, 8, 8, 507137
Sub title
the struggle for African-American voting rights
Summary
"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army of occupation. Yet, even that was not enough to ensure that African American voices would be heard, or their lives protected. White supremacists loudly and intentionally prevented black Americans from voting -- and they were willing to kill to do so. In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow. Though this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book"--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
juvenile
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Minority groups + Segregation + History
- BIPOC + Violence against + History
- Minority groups + Civil rights + History
- African Americans + Segregation + History
- Black people + Violence against + History
- Minority groups + Suffrage + History
- Black people + Segregation + History
- Minority groups + Violence against + History
- BIPOC + Suffrage + History
- Black people + Suffrage + History
- Society & cultures
- Black people + Civil rights + History
- BIPOC + Segregation + History
- African Americans + Civil rights + History
- African Americans + Suffrage + History
- African Americans + Violence against + History
- BIPOC + Civil rights + History
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject17
- Minority groups + Segregation + History
- BIPOC + Violence against + History
- Minority groups + Civil rights + History
- African Americans + Segregation + History
- Black people + Violence against + History
- Minority groups + Suffrage + History
- Black people + Segregation + History
- Minority groups + Violence against + History
- BIPOC + Suffrage + History
- Black people + Suffrage + History
- Society & cultures
- Black people + Civil rights + History
- BIPOC + Segregation + History
- African Americans + Civil rights + History
- African Americans + Suffrage + History
- African Americans + Violence against + History
- BIPOC + Civil rights + History
- Content1