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    On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
    On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
    On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
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    On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

    Written by Lawrence Goldstone

    Narrated by Rhett Samuel Price

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    One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, strong political forces were determined to limit that right. The Supreme Court, Alexander Hamilton wrote, would protect the weak against this very sort of tyranny. Still, as On Account of Race forcefully demonstrates, through the better part of American history the Court has instead been a protector of white rule. And complex threats against the right to vote persist even today.

    Beginning in 1876, the Supreme Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment and what seemed to be the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so a half million African Americans across the South who had risked their lives and property to be allowed to cast ballots were stricken from voting rolls by white supremacists. This vacuum allowed for the rise of Jim Crow. None of this was done in the shadows—those determined to wrest the vote from black Americans could not have been more boastful in either intent or execution.

    On Account of Race tells the story of an American tragedy, the only occasion in United States history in which a group of citizens who had been granted the right to vote then had it stripped away. It is a warning that the right to vote is fragile and must be carefully guarded and actively preserved lest American democracy perish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781094411859
    On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
    Author

    Lawrence Goldstone

    Lawrence Goldstone is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, and he has written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. He and his wife, author Nancy Goldstone, live in Sagaponack, New York.

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    • 4/5
      Solidly informative. Carries the reader from the founding and through the early 1900s history of especially voter suppression in the former confederacy, as well as the monumental achievement and cataclysmic disappointments of the 14th and 15th amendments. I withhold the fifth star as the author does not go into the civil rights movement of the 1950s (or the earlier and later periods) nor the Voting Rights Act of '65, and only alludes to the disastrous modern jurisprudence on voting rights, only briefly mentioning Shelby County v. Holder and the dismembering of the VRA. As such it feels like the first half of a complete book and not l-encompassing. That said, it is well paced and highly informative, and thusly successful in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      There is so much important information in this book! Must read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A vital overview of the post-reconstruction devolution of the South, how the 14th and 15th amendments were stripped of their intent and effect, and how and why Jim Crow laws, especially voting laws, were used to enshrine white rule.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The changes that is seen in present day are the words and tactics to keep the Black vote suppressed. Very good book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Another disgusting piece of propaganda. How sad that people will read this garbage. I read these books, for one reason; “know your enemy”

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      To say I loved it us wrong. I was incensed, not by the writers words, because he wrote clearly and fairly. It was the injustice documented in this book that draws my ire. For reality deniers, I personally fact-checked against documents from the time, including the court decisions. If I stand silent when my brother is slain, who will stand for me?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Too biased . Give more balance please. Thanks for sharing.

      3 people found this helpful