By Silent Book Club
Your voice is your vote, and this November we will not be silent. We're doing our part to make sure all Americans exercise their constitutional right to vote in the general election. Even if you think you are registered, it's critical that you triple check your voter registration in your state right now. Many states close voter registration 30 days before the election. That's coming up fast.
Between 2016 and 2018, at least 17 million people were purged from voter rolls, many in swing states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Georgia purged 200,000 voters in the lead-up to the primaries in 2019. Indiana purged nearly a half million voter registrations in 2017, or 22.3% of voters.
Check on your registration here: www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
It is more important than ever that voters have fair and safe access to registering and voting. No American should ever have to make the choice to risk their health or the safety of their family to cast their ballot.
Here are 4 ways you can act right now:
Want to learn more about voting in America? We created this reading list full of historical context and contemporary insight, from the women's suffrage movement to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the modern assault on democracy.
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Carol Anderson,
Dick Durbin
$27.00
$25.11
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jonah Winter,
Shane W. Evans
$18.99
$17.66
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
Eric Stein,
Michael S. Bandy,
James E. Ransome
$18.99
$17.66
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery,
Elspeth Leacock,
Susan Buckley,
$19.99
$18.59
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Carole Boston Weatherford,
Ekua Holmes
$18.99
$17.66
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi,
Jason Reynolds
$18.99
$17.66
She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next
Bridget Quinn,
Nell Irvin Painter
$35.00
$32.55
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
Zachary Roth
$26.00
$24.18
Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
Richard L. Hasen
$16.00
Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Russell Freedman
$20.00
$18.60
One Person, No Vote (YA Edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (Young Readers')
Carol Anderson,
Tonya Bolden
$19.99
$18.59
African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
Arlene Voski Avakian,
John H. Bracey,
Bettye Collier-Thomas,
$30.99
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
$30.00
$27.90
By Silent Book Club
Your voice is your vote, and this November we will not be silent. We're doing our part to make sure all Americans exercise their constitutional right to vote in the general election. Even if you think you are registered, it's critical that you triple check your voter registration in your state right now. Many states close voter registration 30 days before the election. That's coming up fast.
Between 2016 and 2018, at least 17 million people were purged from voter rolls, many in swing states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Georgia purged 200,000 voters in the lead-up to the primaries in 2019. Indiana purged nearly a half million voter registrations in 2017, or 22.3% of voters.
Check on your registration here: www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
It is more important than ever that voters have fair and safe access to registering and voting. No American should ever have to make the choice to risk their health or the safety of their family to cast their ballot.
Here are 4 ways you can act right now:
Want to learn more about voting in America? We created this reading list full of historical context and contemporary insight, from the women's suffrage movement to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the modern assault on democracy.
Carol Anderson,
Dick Durbin
Hardback
$27.00
$25.11
Jonah Winter,
Shane W. Evans
Hardback
$18.99
$17.66
Eric Stein,
Michael S. Bandy,
James E. Ransome
Hardback
$18.99
$17.66
Gary May
Hardback
$46.80
Lynda Blackmon Lowery,
Elspeth Leacock,
Susan Buckley,
Hardback
$19.99
$18.59
Carole Boston Weatherford,
Ekua Holmes
Hardback
$18.99
$17.66
Ibram X. Kendi,
Jason Reynolds
Hardback
$18.99
$17.66
Bridget Quinn,
Nell Irvin Painter
Hardback
$35.00
$32.55
Zachary Roth
Hardback
$26.00
$24.18
Richard L. Hasen
Hardback
$16.00
Deborah Diesen,
Magdalena Mora
Hardback
$17.99
$16.73
Russell Freedman
Hardback
$20.00
$18.60
Carol Anderson,
Tonya Bolden
Hardback
$19.99
$18.59
Arlene Voski Avakian,
John H. Bracey,
Bettye Collier-Thomas,
Paperback
$30.99
Martha S. Jones
Hardback
$30.00
$27.90