Truxal Library Exhibit: Election and Voting, Fall 2024
Truxal library encourages everyone to practice their voting rights!
Exercise your right to vote!
The right to vote in the United States has not always been available for all citizens. Exercising this hard-won right is important for a thriving democracy. This section of the guide highlights resources that tell the story of voting rights in the United States.
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Selected Books & eBooks
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting –by Call Number: JF1031 .D563 2022ISBN: 9781620976777Publication Date: 2022-03-22
The American Nonvoter –by Call Number: JK1987 .R34 2017ISBN: 9780190670702Publication Date: 2017-05-01
The bill of obligations : the ten habits of good citizens –by Call Number: JF801 .H23 2023ISBN: 9780525560654Publication Date: 2023-01-24
Black Suffrage: Lincoln's Last Goal –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813948171Publication Date: 2022-06-16
Can democracy work? : a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world –by Call Number: JC423 .M617 2018ISBN: 9780374137649Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone –by Call Number: JC423 .T3195 2019ISBN: 9781250179845Publication Date: 2019-05-07
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780674972360Publication Date: 2018-09-10
Four threats : the recurring crises of American democracy –by Call Number: JK1726 .M48 2020ISBN: 9781250244420Publication Date: 2020-08-11
Give Us the Ballot: the Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America –by Call Number: JK1846 .B47 2015ISBN: 9780374158279Publication Date: 2015-08-04
The great experiment : why diverse democracies fall apart and how they can endure –by Call Number: JC423 .M7387 2022ISBN: 9780593296813Publication Date: 2022-04-19
How Democracies Die –by Call Number: JC423 .L4855 2018ISBN: 9781524762933Publication Date: 2018-01-16
How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781400880409Publication Date: 2016-04-26
Justice by Means of Democracy –by Call Number: JC575 .A48 2023ISBN: 9780226777092Publication Date: 2023-04-28
Latinos and the 2016 Election: Latino Resistance and the Election of Donald Trump –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781609176365Publication Date: 2020-05-01
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College First edition. –by Call Number: JK528 .W39 2020ISBN: 9781250221971Publication Date: 2020-03-17
No Small Thing: The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781496816399Publication Date: 2018-03-29
One Person, No Vote: How voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy –by Call Number: JK1924 .A54 2018ISBN: 9781635571370Publication Date: 2018-09-11
One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America –by Call Number: JK1341 .S393 2022ISBN: 9780593315866Publication Date: 2022-06-14
The Politics of Voter Suppression –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780801466038Publication Date: 2012-08-15
Reference Shelf: Democracy Evolving. –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781642652215Publication Date: 2019-08-01
Reference Shelf: Voters' Rights –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781637002957Publication Date: 2022-10-30
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote –by Call Number: JK1896 .D778 2020BISBN: 9781501165160Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781501701092Publication Date: 2015-11-06
A time to build : from family and community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream –by Call Number: HN59.2 .L494 2020ISBN: 9781541699274Publication Date: 2020-01-21
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America –by Call Number: KF4891 .D36 2020ISBN: 9781479862351Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781440874505Publication Date: 2020-02-24
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All –by Call Number: JK1924 .J66 2020ISBN: 9781541618619Publication Date: 2020-09-08
The Vote Collectors: The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Prechers behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud –by Call Number: JK1994 .G73 2021ISBN: 9781469665566Publication Date: 2021-11-16
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780271081250Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Voting and Political Representation in America: Issues and Trends [2 Volumes] –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781440860850Publication Date: 2020-02-24
The Voting Rights Act: Historical context and Associated Issues and Trends. –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781633219755Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Voting Rights War: the NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice –by Call Number: JK1924 .B76 2017ISBN: 0810896249Publication Date: 2017-11-16
Who's Afraid of Political Education? –by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781447366997Publication Date: 2023-05-02
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? –by Call Number: JK529 .K47 2020ISBN: 9780674660151Publication Date: 2020-07-31
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote –by Call Number: JK1896 .W37 2019ISBN: 9780674986688Publication Date: 2019-05-06
The Woman's Hour: the Great Fight to Win the Vote –by Call Number: JK1896 .W45 2018ISBN: 9780525429722Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Women's Suffrage Movement –by Call Number: JK1896 .W46 2019ISBN: 9780143132431Publication Date: 2019-03-05
You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen –by Call Number: JF799 .L58 2017ISBN: 9781610397070Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Selected Web Resources
- Introduction to Federal Voting Rights LawsUnited States Justice Department's Civil RIghts Division's overview to the 1965 Voting Rights Act
- 20 Suffragists To Know for 2020National Park Service exhibit highlighting lesser known suffragists who enabled the passing of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Timeline of Voting Rights
- 1776: Voting is controlled by individual state legislatures - only white men age 21 and older who own land can vote
- 1870: 15th Amendment - prohibits racial disparities in voting
- 1920: 19th Amendment - gave women the right to vote
- 1965: Voting Rights Act of 1965 - prohibits Jim Crow era practices that disenfranchise Black voters
- 1971: 26th Amendment - lowers the voting age to 18 from 21
- 1975: Voting Rights Act - expands protections to language minorities
- 1982: Congress requires new voting protections for people with disabilities
