O'rourke Beto - We've Got To Try How The Fight For Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Uplifting . O Rourke gets an A - plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause . The happy warrior from Texas is inspiring. - - The Washington Post Activist and political leader Beto O Rourke blends history sociology and travelogue for a thrilling inspiring case for how voting rights is essential to a productive and healthy democracy. In We ve Got To Try O Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall Texas before moving to El Paso becoming a civil rights leader and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all - white primary. His fight for the ballot spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U. S. Supreme Court. With heart eloquence and powerful storytelling O Rourke weaves together Nixon's story with those of other great Texans who changed the course of voting rights and improved America's democracy. While connecting voting rights and democracy to the major issues of our time O Rourke also shares what he saw heard and learned while on his own journey throughout the 254 counties of his home state. By telling the stories of those he met along the way and bringing us into the epicenter of the current fight against voter suppression the former El Paso Congressman shows just how essential it is that the sacred right to vote is protected and that we each do our part to save our democracy for generations to come.
Title: We've Got To Try How The Fight For Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible
Author(s): O'rourke Beto
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250852458
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/23/2022
Category: Political Structures: Democracy