In her new book, “ One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” published this month by Bloomsbury and on the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for nonfiction, Anderson asserts that many of the same efforts employed to impede black voters in the Jim Crow South are still being used successfully today, wrapped in the mythology of widespread “voter fraud” - overblown allegations that simply haven’t stood up to scrutiny, she says. How hard is it to get an ID? We have to make sure that people who aren’t supposed to be voting shouldn’t be voting” - ideas that, on their face, may sound reasonable, she acknowledges. Questions typically followed along the lines of, “ I don’t understand. While on the national speaking circuit following the release of her award-winning book, “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide,” Emory historian and professor Carol Anderson noticed a curious trend.Īs she described tactics used throughout the nation’s history to keep African Americans from voting - including gerrymandering, closing polling stations, purging voter rolls, restricting voting hours and adopting stringent voter ID laws - Anderson often saw stunned looks in her audiences. To help bring her scholarship to a wider audience, Anderson has written a new book, “ We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide,” also published this month by Bloomsbury.ĭeveloped in response to the appeal of teachers seeking a more complete history of black lives and the struggle for civil rights in the United States, “We Are Not Yet Equal” presents an adaptation of “White Rage” especially written for Young Adult readers. Bringing civil rights history to young adult readers

One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson