Just Freedom: Inside Florida's Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle

The story of an extraordinaryexpansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation WhenFlorida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, whichpromised to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions, thedecision was celebrated as a civil rights victory and the nation's largestexpansion of voting rights in almost 50 years. In Just Freedom, DanielRivero details the advocacy and action that led to this moment--and shows whatwent wrong in the years after the amendment's passing. Thestory begins in the Reconstruction era with Florida's 1868 lifetime voting banfor people with past felony convictions. The infamous 2000 Bush/Gore electionbrought the ban to national attention, sparking a wave of activism against it. Riverofollows the 18-year path to Amendment 4 through the grassroots work of peopleincluding Howard Simon of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida andDesmond Meade, a formerly incarcerated man and president