LibGuides: Primary Sources: African-Americans: Suffrage

Online Sources: Suffrage

Of the people, by the People, for the People by Thomas J. Baldino and Kyle L. Kreider
Call Number: JK1846 .B35 2010
ISBN: 0313385505
A Documentary Record of Voting Rights and Electoral Reform
v. 1. Foundations of the modern franchise, 1660-1959 -- v. 2. The development of the modern franchise, 1960-2009.
The Reconstruction Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877 by Donna L. Dickerson
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 0313320942
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Call Number: JK1924 .H55 2009
ISBN: 0780810481
"Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"
Voting Rights in America: a Reference Handbook by Richard A. Glenn; Kyle L. Kreider
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781440870934
Voting Rights in America: Primary Documents in Contex by Bridgett A. King (Editor)
Call Number: KF4891 .V68 2020
ISBN: 144087154X

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