Rebecca De Schweinitz, Jennifer Frost

Achieving the 26th Amendment

A History with Primary Sources

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of primary source documents and analysis that illustrates the forgotten history of the fight to lower the voting age to eighteen in the twentieth-century United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781032367361
• ISBN-10: 1032367369
• Artikelnr.: 67825802

Autorenporträt

Rebecca de Schweinitz is an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, USA. The author of If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality (2009), her research focuses on young people, and ideas about them, in American politics and culture. Jennifer Frost is a historian of 20th century United States society, politics, and culture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author, among other books, of "Let Us Vote!": Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "Franchise of Freedom": A Brief History 1. Early Efforts and
Discussions 2. Polling the Public 3. Arguments For & Against Youth Suffrage
4. Youth Activism, Politics, and Culture in the 1960s 5. Strategies for
Winning Youth Suffrage 6. Coalition Organizing for Vote 18 7. Congress and
the 26th Amendment 8. America's New Constituency