Every Vote Is a Prayer
An inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America, from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to John Lewis, James Clyburn, and the Obamas.
At the country’s founding, voting rights were only extended to white male property owners. Although those rights had expanded to men regardless “of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude” in 1870, it wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of...
An inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America, from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to John Lewis, James Clyburn, and the Obamas.
At the country’s founding, voting rights were only extended to white male property owners. Although those rights had expanded to men regardless “of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude” in 1870, it wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of...