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John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1870. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriat
... See moreP.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant,
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Johnson’s voting record—a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day—was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an u
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Fast-forward fifty years, and the threat to voting stems not from silly requirements but from voter ID laws and sophisticated redistricting algorithms capable of analyzing and carving up legislative
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTO and Herbert Brownell’s civil rights bill menaced—from opposite sides—Lyndon Johnson’s master plan. Manifesto and bill both threatened to add kindling to the civil rights issue on Capitol Hill. Johnson’s strategy for winning his party’s presidential nomination—to hold his southern support while antagonizing northern liberals a
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K
... See moreElsa Dorlin • Se défendre (French Edition)
understand how the act of voting could not only change their lives but could also improve the lives of every Black American.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life.”