Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

by Charles L. Zelden

Book Overview

Explores and documents the causes and effects of the long history of vote denial on American politics, culture, law, and society.

The debate over who can and cannot vote has been "on trial" since the American Revolution. Throughout U.S. history, the franchise has been awarded and denied on the basis of wealth, status, gender, ethnicity, and race. Featuring a unique mix of analysis and documentation, Voting Rights on Trial illuminates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576077942
• ISBN13: 9781576077948
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher