Book cover of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy

From the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of White Rage, the startling—and timely—history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin, now with a new afterword by the author.

[su_expand height="0"] In her New York Times bestseller 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. […Learn More]

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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists 

Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. […Learn More]