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Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma
Contributor(s): Forner, Karlyn (Author)
ISBN: 0822370050     ISBN-13: 9780822370055
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- History | African American
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Business & Economics | Economic History
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 2017009233
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 376 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
 
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Publisher Description:
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed to offset decades of systematic disfranchisement and unequal investment in African American communities. Forner contextualizes Selma as a place, not a moment within the civil rights movement -a place where black citizens' fight for full citizenship unfolded alongside an agricultural shift from cotton farming to cattle raising, the implementation of federal divestment policies, and economic globalization. At the end of the twentieth century, Selma's celebrated political legacy looked worlds apart from the dismal economic realities of the region. Forner demonstrates that voting rights are only part of the story in the black freedom struggle and that economic justice is central to achieving full citizenship.