Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses (Democracy in Times of Upheaval, 5)

ISBN 10: 3111577074 / ISBN 13: 9783111577074

Published by De Gruyter, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses (Democracy in Times of Upheaval, 5)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111577074
• ISBN 13: 9783111577074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book uses the history of the 26th Amendment and the ongoing fight to promote and defend youth voting rights as a prism through which to teach the history of the struggle for the fundamental right to vote in the United States. The book centers on case studies of four institutions – Tuskegee University, Prairie View A&M University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Bard College – which offer unique insights into the role of college communities in the fight for suffrage, and their contributions to the evolution of the right to vote.

About the Authors

Jonathan Becker, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and Yael Bromberg, Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ, USA.

Jonathan Becker is Professor of Political Studies, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College.

 Yael Bromberg is a constitutional rights and voting rights litigator and leading legal scholar of the 26^th Amendment. She teaches democracy law at American University Washington College of Law.