In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement,
Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in
Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in
voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression.
A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized
today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial,
tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much
longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not
only between Blacks and whites in Alabama but between white
political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts
recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in
Alabama as an unremitting, decades- long sectional battle in
white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and
north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white
heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting
rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of
Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of
resistance and change through which a southern state’s
longstanding democratic failures ironically provided motivation for
and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to
advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from
this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount
issues of America’s commitment to the universal right to
vote—then and now.
General
| Imprint: |
NewSouth, Incorporated
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Steve Suitts
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
544 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-58838-513-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-58838-513-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781588385130 |
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