"Let us vote!" : youth voting rights and the 26th amendment /
""Let Us Vote" tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period from World War II to the early 1970s, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture built a movement and momentum for...
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New York, N.Y. :
NYU Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.1094279 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Introduction : "we're old enough so let us vote"
- Part I : "it's been a long time gettin' here," 1942-1962
- Franchise of freedom
- Youth's own future
- Make democracy live
- Change Is in the air
- Part II : "a change is comin' and it's very near," 1963-1967
- Agenda for a generation
- Consent of the governed
- Challenge of citizenship
- This Is democracy?
- Part III : "it's time that we all made a contribution," 1968-1969
- Turning Point '68
- We can vote them out
- It's about time
- Where It's at
- Part IV : "come on and let us vote-it's a solution," 1970-1971
- The hour Is striking
- Enfranchised?
- A step forward
- On account of age
- Conclusion : "talking 'bout you and me changin' things peacefully"
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix : youth suffrage in states and territories, 1943-1971.