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[[File: Right to Vote.jpg|left|300px|thumbnail|The Right to Vote]]Charles Zelden, a legal scholar, author, and expert on election law, created a booklist for [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog ] of the best books on the history of election law and voting rights. Over the last few years, this booklist has become even more relevant than before. Check out Zeldin's booklist because he highlights the struggles Americans have had securing the right to the vote. The first nine books on the list are his choices, but we added one more book to round out the Top Ten Booklist.
We have included links to Amazon, but a number of these books are fairly expensive. See if you can check them out from your local library.
10. Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195082451/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195082451&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f16b20f091d376e7c1509331c593d812 New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Southern States] (Oxford University Press, 1993)
There is currently a great deal of interest in the Southern suffrage movement, but until now historians have had no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage movement in the South, the region where suffragists had the hardest fight and the least success. This important new book focuses on eleven of the movement's most prominent leaders at the regional and national levels, exploring the range of opinions within this group, with particular emphasis on race and states' rights. Wheeler insists that the suffragists were motivated primarily by the desire to secure public affirmation of female equality and to protect the interests of women, children, and the poor in the tradition of noblesse oblige in a New South they perceived as misgoverned by crass and materialistic men.
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