From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of White
Rage, the startling - and timely - history of voter suppression in
America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.
In her New York Times best seller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid
bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded
black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With
One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks
to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme
Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as
the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a
demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting
requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.
Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing
story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our
very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In
gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works,
from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with
vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organising, activism,
and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as
the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.
