Freedom is Not Enough

Ronald W. Walters is director of the African American Leadership Institute and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His many books include Black Presidential Politics, winner of the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Prize and White Nationalism, Black Interests, an "academic best seller," covered by C-SPAN. Walters is a political analysts who appears regularly in major print media, on National Public Radio's "News and Notes" with Ed Gordon, and writes a syndicated column for the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

• Chapter 1 Black Empowerment and the 1965 Voting Rights ActChapter 2 Leverage Politics and the 1984 and 1988 Jackson CampaignsChapter 3 Black Mobilization in the Presidential Elections of 1992, 1996, and 1998Chapter 4 Diluting Black Voting Power: The Supreme Court in the 1990s and the 2000 Presidential Election in FloridaChapter 5 Election Reform: Revisiting the Right to VoteChapter 6 Leverage Politics and the 2004 Primary Election Scenario: The Sharpton and Moseley Braun CampaignsChapter 7 Black Turnout and the 2004 Presidential ElectionChapter 8 The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Leveraging the Power of the Black Vote

The most American thing you can do is vote. History informs the present, action shapes the future. Freedom is Not Enough reminds us we must understand where we've been as a society if we are to move forward to realize a new American dream for all people.