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Recommended Sources - Voting Rights

The Embattled Vote in America : From the Founding to the Present (ebook)
https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=6c6ea5ae-8904-33f8-b73a-3ec59652afee

Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act : Race, Voting, and Redistricting (ebook)
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/detail.action?docID=1638456

The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U. S. Supreme Court (ebook)
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/detail.action?docID=3415079

Race, Representation, and the Voting Rights Act (journal article)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379507

Or Other Crime (Mother Jones Magazine)
(The article examines how African American voting rights were undermined by the three-word phrase "or other crime" in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Topics discussed include how antislavery Republicans left a loophole that took away African Americans' right to vote, the role of white supremacists in North Carolina in weaponizing the 14th Amendment against African Americans, and how the phrase can be reconstructed)
https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=a90d7fba-da41-37dd-9490-5d2e39da5a64

Racial Discrimination in the Electoral Process (journal article 1973)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1038757

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins (Note: Originally published in The Atlantic, but we don't have access through our databases)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-origins

Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines (website)
https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/voting-rights/voting-rights-act-beyond-headlines

The Voting Rights Act: Ten Things You Should Know (website)
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-voting-rights-act-ten-things-you-should-know/

On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights (eBook)
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=202898&titleID=4887699