Stolen Justice The Struggle for Afri..., Lawrence Goldstone
Stolen Justice The Struggle for Afri..., Lawrence Goldstone
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Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Lawrence Goldstone

Narrator: James Shippy

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020

Synopsis

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States.Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army of occupation. Yet, even that was not enough to ensure that African American voices would be heard, or their lives protected. White supremacists loudly and intentionally prevented black Americans from voting -- and they were willing to kill to do so.In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote for young adults, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow. Though this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book.

About Lawrence Goldstone

Lawrence Goldstone is the author of Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown vs. Board of Education, a Junior Library Guild selection, which Kirkus called "engaging and accessible" in a starred review; Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights, which School Library Journal declared in a starred review: "A must-buy for all high school collections"; and Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice, which Booklist's starred review called "gripping . . . and a well-informed perspective on American history." He is also the author of more than a dozen books for adults, including four on Constitutional law. He lives in Sagaponack, New York, with his wife, medieval and Renaissance historian Nancy Goldstone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed

This U.S. history book discusses the erosion of black voters' rights in the years following the Reconstruction era in the South. It's also the same time period when a lot of the Confederate statues and memorials were erected. The author uses lots of primary material, including quotes from the U.S. S......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy

Although this book may be written with a younger reader level in mind, everyone should read this book. I learned so much that is never taught or told. It is appalling that white men would go (and still do) to such lengths to minimize the rights of minorities all the while maximizing their own.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

I've spent the last two years researching the American women's fight for the vote. The 15th Amendment mainly makes its appearance as an issue that divided the suffrage movement between those who supported African American men gaining the vote, regardless of whether women had to wait, and those who b......more

Goodreads review by Richie

Richie’s Picks: STOLEN JUSTICE: THE STRUGGLE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS by Lawrence Goldstone, Scholastic Focus, January 2020, 288p., ISBN: 978-1-338-32350-4 “President Donald Trump in recent days shared tweets of Black people being violent and asked why people weren’t protesting over it. The......more

Goodreads review by Bridgette

This is essential anti-racism reading and should be essential for all Americans to better understand our own history, how we got to where we are, how things change and how they don't change. It's a short, easily accessible non-fiction, and I learned a lot. The focus in on cases brought before the Su......more

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