Every Vote Is a Prayer (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cambron, Cathy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America, from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to John Lewis, James Clyburn, and the Obamas.

At the country's founding, voting rights were only extended to white male property owners. Although those rights had expanded to men regardless "of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude" in 1870, it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that barriers African Americans faced were struck down. Meanwhile, the fight for women's suffrage wasn't won until 1920. Native Americans finally gained citizenship and the right to vote in 1924, and young men of eighteen who faced military draft could not vote until 1971.

For 250 years, Americans have marched and fought, been beaten and jailed-and even died-to win and protect the right to vote. Progress has been hard-won and incremental. In Every Vote Is a Prayer, Cathy Cambron chronicles those battles and urges us to remember, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves―and the only way they could do that is by not voting at all."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504099837
• Artikelnr.: 72476191

Autorenporträt

Edited by Cathy Cambron

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction. How You Can Help Fix the United States.....1
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers-Emily Dickinson.....3
A Brief History of U.S. Voting.....3
Democracy and Elections.....9
A Note About Third Parties.....10
Chapter 1. Get It Done: Register and Make a Plan.....13
Take the First Step.....13
Register and Make a Plan.....14
Primaries and Party Affiliation.....16
Review a Sample Ballot.....17
Chapter 2. Your Vote Matters.....19
Election Day, November, 1984-Walt Whitman.....19
Our Sacred Right and Duty-Franklin D. Roosevelt.....20
A Handful of Ballots-Ronald Reagan.....21
Just Vote. It's Math-Barack Obama.....23
The Hill We Climb-Amanda Gorman.....29
Chapter 3. Black Americans and the Promise of Voting.....33
The Safeguard of the Strongest; the Voice of the Weakest-Robert
Purvis.....33
A Severe Test-Abraham Lincoln.....35
An Urgency to Obtain the Ballot-Frederick Douglass.....37
To America, 1917-James Weldon Johnson.....40
A Free Unfettered Right to Vote-James Clyburn.....41
Chapter 4. Votes for Women.....45
Is It a Crime to Vote?-Susan B. Anthony.....45
A Great Truth-Frederick Douglass.....48
A Happier Nation-Carrie Chapman Catt.....50
Why Woman Wants to Vote-Helen Keller.....53
How to Interest Women in Voting-Eleanor Roosevelt.....55
Phone Call-Laura Bush and Effie Hobby.....57
Searching for Equality-Ruth Bader Ginsburg.....59
Chapter 5. Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote.....63
This Fateful Summons-Dwight D. Eisenhower.....63 A New Arena-Edward M.
Kennedy.....64
Building the Future-Joseph Biden.....66
Chapter 6. Voter Suppression and Voting Rights Enforcement.....69
Give Us the Ballot-Martin Luther King, Jr. .....69
The Time for Waiting Is Gone-Lyndon B. Johnson.....76
Every Citizen Is a Somebody-George W. Bush.....80
The Time for Waiting Is Gone-Lyndon B. Johnson.....76
Every Citizen Is a Somebody-George W. Bush.....80
Keep Pushing-Barack Obama.....82
We Need to Fix It and Fix It Now-John Lewis.....86
Your Vote Is Your Voice, and Your Voice Is Your Human Dignity
-Raphael Warnock.....88
Protecting the Sacred Right to Vote for Native Americans-Ben Ray Luján,
Sharice
Davids, Mary Sattler Peltola, and Tom Cole.....92
Speak the Truth About History-Kamala Harris.....94
Our Democracy Held-Joseph Biden.....95
Our Election Systems Are Safe-U.S. Secretaries of Homeland Security.....98
Chapter 7. Educate Yourself, and Vote!.....99
Rooting Out Bias and "Fake News".....99
A Prayer Only You Can Make.....102