Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
On August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, an even to which the newspapers of August 7 devoted headline coverage. This book is about voting rights, but it is also about protest, because the story of how southern blacks finally won equal voting rights cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of how the dynamics of protest helped them to achieve the remarkable gains that they made. Written by David J. Garrow, 346 pages.
