Real

True Narratives

Voting rights histories:

• Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic Books, 2000).
• Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (W. W. Norton & Co., 1988).
• Thomas J. Baldino and Kyle L. Kreider, Of the People, by the People, for the People:A Documentary Record of Voting Rights and Electoral Reform, vol. 1 (Greenwood, 2010).
• Gary May, Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy (Basic Books, 2013).
• Charles S. Bullock & Keith Gaddle, The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).
• Charles S. Bullock III, Keith Gaddie & Justin J. Wert, The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).
• Jesse H. Rhodes, Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act (Stanford University Press, 2017).
• Ruvi Ziegler, Voting Rights of Refugees (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

The women's suffrage movement in the United States:

• Mari Jo Buhle & Paul Buhle, The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from History of Woman Suffrage, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (University of Illinois Press, 2005).
• Aileen S. Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1981).
• Jean H. Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists (Hill and Wang, 2005).
• Jean H. Baker, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Ann Bausam, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Right for a Woman's Right to Vote (National Geographic Children's Books, 2004).
• Ellen Carol Dubois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 (Cornell University Press, 1978).
• Catherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign (University of Illinois Press, 2007).
• Marjorie Sprull Wheeler, New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Oxford University Press, 1993).

African-American voting rights in the United States:

• R. Volney Riser, Defying Disenfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).
• J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
• Julian Maxwell Hayter, The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia (University Press of Kentycky, 2017).
• Brian K. Landsberg, Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (University of Kansas Press, 2007).
• Garth E. Pauley, LBJ's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Address (TAMU Press, 2006).
• Laughlin McDonald, A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Voting rights and Native Americans:

• Laughlin McDonald, American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).
• Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson & Jennifer L. Robinson, Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

From the dark side: unequal treatment, generally:

• Jeffrey Toobin, American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Doubleday, 2016): “‘ . . . the prisons teem with convicts who were also led astray and who committed lesser crimes than Patricia. These unfortunate souls have no chance at even a single act of clemency, much less an unprecedented two. Rarely have the benefits of wealth, power and renown been as clear as they were in the aftermath of Patricia’s conviction.’”
• Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America (Penguin Press, 2020): “. . . after it turned to the right in 1969, Cohen argues, the court also turned on the poor. Most of his book builds a brick-by-brick case for this thesis, with chapters on education, campaign finance, democracy, workers, corporations and criminal justice.”

Technical and Analytical Readings

• Charles R. Beitz, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory (Princeton University Press, 1989).
• Robert A. Dahl, On Political Equality (Yale University Press, 2006).
• Eva Erman and Sofia Näsström, Political Equality in Transnational Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
• Jill Locke, Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance (Cambridge University Press, 2016). “The greatest threat to Western liberal democracies in the future is . . . likely to come from extreme inequality . . .”
• Bill Emmott, The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea (Public Affairs, 2017): “Emmott argues that the financial interests of banks and big companies have distorted and disarmed public policy.”
• Jeremy Waldron, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (Belknap Press, 2017): “Waldron warns that wide inequalities of income and wealth can erode this moral imperative because they make it harder to make the mental leap it requires . . . ”
• Sidney Verba, Norman H. Nie and Jae-on Kim, Participation and Political Equality: A Seven-Nation Comparison (University of Chicago Press, 1987).
• Tongdong Bai, Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (Princeton University Press, 2020).

Photographs

Documentary and Educational Films

On women’s suffrage

• One Woman, One Vote
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony video
• Iron Jawed Angels video
• Susan B. Anthony video
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton video
• By One Vote: Women Suffrage in the South video
• The Surprising Road to Women’s Suffrage video

President Lyndon Baines Johnson's 1965 voting rights address