The Voting Rights Act of 1965
By: by Laurie Collier Hillstrom.
Series: Defining moments
Publisher: Omnigraphics, Inc.; Omnigraphics
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780780810488
Subjects: United States; African Americans -- Suffrage; Suffrage -- United States; Election law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
Description: "Explains the events that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Details both the racial discrimination and violence that pervaded the South and the civil rights protests that changed American voting rights. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jim Crow South; title: Boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides; title: The march on Washington; title: Freedom Summer; title: Showdown in Selma; title: The Voting Rights Act becomes law; title: Legacy of the Voting Rights Act; title: Biographies; title: Primary sources.