San Antonio College Library

This book compares the failed First Reconstruction (after the Civil War) to the relatively successful Second Reconstruction, which encompasses the Civil Rights movement after World War II.

Chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 2 (2013), which allowed districts to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. "Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt...

"Politicians spew shallow sound bites that describe a "free" American people who govern themselves by selecting their representatives. In reality, politicians from both parties maintain power by selecting specific voters. Elected officials and bureaucrats control thousands of election practices that determine political winners and losers, including the location of election district boundaries, the number of voting booths at urban polling places, and...

"For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights in all its diversity and intersectionality, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it: the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims,...