Beto O’Rourke – We’ve Got to Try – How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible (epub)
General:
Name: Beto O’Rourke – We’ve Got to Try – How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 765.17 KB
Book:
Title: We’ve Got to Try
Author: Beto O’Rourke
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 288 str.
Description:
By sharing stories from his beloved home state of Texas, activist and political leader Beto O’Rourke inspires us to overcome the greatest challenge to our democracy and fight to preserve the right to vote.
In We’ve Got To Try, O’Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight for the ballot spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U.S. Supreme Court.
With heart, eloquence, and powerful storytelling, O’Rourke weaves together Nixon’s story with those of other great Texans who changed the course of voting rights and improved America’s democracy. While connecting voting rights…
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