Recommended Reading
BOOKS
The Fight to Vote
Michael Waldman
Simon & Shuster, 2016
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
Zachary Roth
Crown, 2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
Anchor, 2016
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
Richard Hasen
Yale University Press, 2012
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Alexander Keyssar
Basic Books, 2009
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present
Allan Lichtman
Harvard University Press, 2018
ARTICLES
The Root, Angela Helm – April 4, 2019
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Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote
The Nation, Timothy Smith – March 11, 2019
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It’s Time for a New Voting Rights Act
The New Republic, Janell Ross – November 13, 2018
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New Documentary ‘Rigged’ Spotlights Voter Suppression Tactics in Texas​
Texas Monthly, Tim Taliaferro – October 23, 2018
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Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump,
The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb – October 21, 2018
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How voter suppression threatens our democracy
The Washington Post, Timothy Smith – September 20, 2018
How the Case for Voter Fraud Was Tested — and Utterly Failed
ProPublica, Jessica Huseman – June 19, 2018
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How North Carolina became the epicenter of the voting rights battle
The Washington Post, Sari Horwitz – April 26, 2016
A Dream Undone: Inside the 50-year campaign to roll back the Voting Rights Act
The New York Times Magazine, Jim Rutenberg – July 29, 2015