America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more
precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and
under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of
voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected
government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls
for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the
electorate and exclude some citizens from the political life of the
nation. North Carolina is a battleground for this debate, and its
history can help us understand why--a century and a half after
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment--we remain a nation divided
over the right to vote. In Fragile Democracy, James L. Leloudis and
Robert R. Korstad tell the story of race and voting rights, from
the end of the Civil War until the present day. They show that
battles over the franchise have played out through cycles of
emancipatory politics and conservative retrenchment. When race has
been used as an instrument of exclusion from political life, the
result has been a society in which vast numbers of Americans are
denied the elements of meaningful freedom: a good job, a good
education, good health, and a good home. That history points to the
need for a bold new vision of what democracy looks like.
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