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Books about Voting Rights

Image: Voters stand in line for hours in Texas, after hundreds of polling locations were closed in Black and Brown communities.

Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, & Heather Ann Thompson: Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections.

Carol Anderson. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.

Ari Berman. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.  

Mary Frances Berry: Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy.

Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddle, & Justin J. Wert. The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act.

Gilda R. Daniels: Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.

Karlyn Forner. Why the Vote Wasn’t Enough for Selma.

Bernard L. Fraga. The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America.

Vanessa A. Holloway: In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965.

Robert R. Korstad & James L. Leloudis: Fragile Democracy: The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina.

Robert E. Mutch. Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform.

WilliamPoundstone.Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It.)

Jesse H. Rhodes. Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act.

Michael Waldman. The Fight to Vote.  

Tova Wang. The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote.

Documentaries

Stacey Abrams: All In: The Fight For Democracy.