Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights
battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the
modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and
are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author's
perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s who reluctantly
became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an
integral part of the ultimate legislative victory
