Beyond the Voting Rights Act: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America's Voter Registration Laws

Gregory T. Moore

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Beyond the Voting Rights Act

The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America's Voter Registration Laws

Gregory T. Moore

Volume 2 in the series Democracy in Times of Upheaval

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742473

Overview
Contents

About this book

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author’s perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s, who reluctantly became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an integral part of the ultimate legislative victory

Covers the previously under-reported period of voting rights advocacy in the 1980s and early 1990s
Provides historical context to the struggle for democracy in the US
A deep and insider political analysis of advocacy and voting rights policy making

Author / Editor information

Gregory T. Moore is one of America's leading voting rights leaders and advocates who has a long and distinguished history of political empowerment and issue advocacy, serving in a number of leadership positions throughout his many years of grassroots organizing and program development at the local, state and national level.

Reviews

"Beyond the Voting Rights Act tells a captivating and long overdue story that bridges the historic battles for voting rights that my father led, to the landmark legislative battles for voter registration and democratic reform from the 1980s to the present. A must read during this period of ever-increasing threats to the Voting Rights Act and our American democracy."

Martin Luther King, III, American human rights activist, philanthropist & advocate

"Greg Moore has written a compelling book that takes us on the journey from access to the ballot box to fighting voter suppression. He reveals, in his first hand account, the behind-the-scenes struggle to secure the vote for every citizen. No book is more important to forging our future."

Donna Brazile, Campaign Manager, Gore for President 2000 Campaign, and Chairperson, Democratic National Committee

"As this generation wages its own battles against a tsunami of voter suppression legislation and an insurgent authoritarian movement, Moore’s insights, experiences, leadership, and guidance is more urgent than ever. Any and everyone concerned about the democratic future of the United States needs this book."

Dr. Clarence Lusane, noted political scientist, Howard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
About the Author and the Series Editor Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Promise of Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Chapter 2 “Our Time Has Come!” – Jesse Jackson and the Historic 1984 Campaign Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 3 Keeping Hope Alive and Breaking Barriers to Voting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 4 Takin’ It to the Hill: The Battle over H.R. 2190 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 5 The Enemy of the Good: Stuck in the Middle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 6 Back to Selma: Taking It to the Streets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 7 The NVRA Filibuster Breakthrough and 1992 Elections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 8 The Final Push for Passage of NVRA “Motor Voter” Bill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Chapter 9 The States’ Resistance and the Battle for Compliance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 10 The 2000 Florida Election Debacle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter 11 Post-2000 Election and the 9/11 Reconfiguration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Chapter 12 The 2004 Ohio Election Debacle, Katrina and VRA Reauthorization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 13 The Obama Phenomenon and the Historic 2008 Mobilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 14 The Shelby Decision and the Battle to Restore the VRA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Chapter 15 The Rise of Trump and the Movement for Black Lives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Epilogue Why We Still Can’t Wait: To Fulfill the Promise of Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students, voting rights advocates, policy makers, political scientists, history and civic instructors, activists, educators
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 243
Keywords: Voting rights act (1965); Voter registration; Civil rights movements

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110742473

Hardcover

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110782738

Paperback

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110742312