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Title Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy / Gary May.
Author May, Gary, 1944-
Publication New York, New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013], ©2013.
Description xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call # 342.73072 M
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-301) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject African Americans -- Suffrage -- History.
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Election law -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0465018467 (hardcover. : alk. paper) :
9780465018468 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780465050734 (e-book)

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