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African Americans repeatedly demanded their rights be restored; Rosa Parks’s first venture into activism came in a. .

May moves nimbly through the swirl of events that led to the Voting Rights Act. The first bursts of official violence, which culminated in the death of 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot by a state trooper in the midst of a march the authorities were determined to stop; the infamous assault on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, played out before the television cameras; King’s brilliant call for people of faith to join the campaign; a moment.

In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders-as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators.

Personal Name: May, Gary, 1944-. Publication, Distribution, et. New York. Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, (c)2013

Personal Name: May, Gary, 1944-. Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, (c)2013. Physical Description: xxi, 314 p. ;, 25 cm. Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Download book Bending toward justice : the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy, Gary May. online for free.

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book by Gary May. When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Bending Toward Justice : The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.

By Gary May. New York: Basic Books. The Renewal of the Voting Rights Act By Pinderhughes, Dianne National Urban League. In this extremely compelling narrative, historian Gary May does a masterful job of connecting the actions of blacks in the south who wished to exercise their political rights and broader local, regional, and national developments. He also makes judicious use of data to demonstrate the changes in participation in the electoral system of blacks as both voters and office holders. Bending toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy By Savage, Sean J. The Historian, Vol. 76, No. 4, Winter 2014.

John Tyler BENDING TOWARD JUSTICE The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American . law of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, arguably the most important law in mod- ern American history.

John Tyler BENDING TOWARD JUSTICE The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy. G a r y M ay. Duke University Press. It will be a bittersweet anniversary, both a celebration of past achievements and, what some fear, a eulogy for a bygone age. Honored will be the many African Americans who risked everything-­ their homes, their jobs, even their lives, to win the right to vote. As they do every year, thousands will gather in Selma, Alabama, in early March to re- member the pivotal event that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

May outlines the divisions within the Civil Rights Movement, describes the relationship between President Johnson and Martin Luther King J. and captures the congressional politics of the 1960s.

Lauren Pearlman, "Gary May, Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy," The Journal of African American History 100, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 342-344. Introduction: african americans, police brutality, and the . criminal justice system.

There is no more dramatic and important story in recent American history than the modern Civil Rights Movement,which is the subject of my forthcoming book: Bending Toward Justice:The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy(Basic Books, April.

There is no more dramatic and important story in recent American history than the modern Civil Rights Movement,which is the subject of my forthcoming book: Bending Toward Justice:The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy(Basic Books, April 9, 2013. It recounts, in a compelling narrative, the long and bloody struggle of African Americans fighting to win the right to vote. I would also love to hear from my readers. I can be reached at garymay.