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Books, articles, films, statistics, and primary sources on the ongoing Movement for Black Lives

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Books

The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote - And How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann
ISBN: 1523087803
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
In search of federal enforcement: the moral authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the integrity of the Black ballot, 1870-1965 by Vanessa A. Holloway
ISBN: 0761865772
Publication Date: 2015

Films

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook (2019)
Voter Suppression (segment from Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, 2016)
Moyers & Company: The Long Assault on Voting Rights (2013)
Voting Matters (2018)
Ida B. Wells (1989)
Fannie Lou Hammer (2005)

Government Documents

History and Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congressional Research Service Report, March 12, 2019
Shelby County v. Holder
2013 US Supreme Court case that overturned part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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