The nutshell: University of Delaware historian May chronicles the civil rights struggles—including the assassinations of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr.—and political maneuverings that gave birth, eventually, to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 

Literary lovechild of: Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 and Alexander Keyssar’s The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.

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