This is the last week for early voting! Did you know that Duke has an early voting location? It’s at the Karsh Alumni Center. You can learn more about your voting options at Duke Votes. If you want to learn more about what will be on your ballot, a good tool to use is vote411.org. To get you excited about voting, I wanted to share some titles about the history of voting and voting rights!
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman.
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones.
Why Vote?: Essential Questions about the Future of Elections in America by Daniel M. Shea.
The Women’s Suffrage Movement edited with an introduction by Sally Roesch Wagner ; foreword by Gloria Steinem.
Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches by Jean Reith Schroedel.
Fragile Democracy: The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina by James L. Leloudis and Robert R. Korstad.
Citizenship beyond Nationality: Immigrants’ Right to Vote across the World by Luicy Pedroza.
Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Robert A. Pratt.
Institutions and the Right to Vote in America by Martha E. Kropf.
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States by Gilda R. Daniels.
Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act by Jesse H. Rhodes.
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware.
Oh and if you’re looking for something fun to do, there’s the recent The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert. In fact Book Riot had a whole list this year of YA books about elections.
