Lisa Anderson Todd served as a federal administrative judge for over twenty-two years on the Board of Contract Appeals at NASA and on the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals at the Department of Defense, USA.
" For A Voice and a Vote is, quite simply, the most comprehensive
and persuasive account of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party's historic challenge to the state's white supremacist
delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City
in 1964. It is also a poignant and provocative memoir of Freedom
Summer in Mississippi, seen through the eyes of a young northern
white volunteer. Lisa Anderson Todd--participant, observer, and
serious scholar--has written an extraordinary book, required
reading for all those who care about the promise and possibilities
of democracy." -- John Dittmer, Professor Emeritus of History,
DePauw University
"In For a Voice and the Vote Lisa Anderson Todd skillfully combines
her personal story--as a college student volunteering for the 1964
Freedom Summer project -- with a scholarly account of the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge at the Democratic
Convention that August. This is an engaging, thoughtful account of
history that we all need to know. Black Mississippians working with
young people from across the country took their demand for voting
rights and political power to the national stage. Though their plea
for recognition was rejected, their effort stands as a remarkable
moment in democratic promise and it changed fundamentally changed
our nation." -- Emilye Crosby, editor of Civil Rights History from
the Ground Up
"Lisa Anderson Todd's For a Voice and the Vote is an engrossing
memoir of a seminal moment in post-World War II United States
history. This work is a heartfelt, insightful examination of the
challenges, complexities, triumphs, and defeats involved in the
arduous struggle to transform conditions in Mississippi, the
Democratic Party, and the United States." -- Timothy N. Thurber,
author of Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with
African Americans, 1945-1974
"The challenge by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the
seating of the regular lily-white Mississippi delegation at the
1964 Democratic Convention has long been recognized as one of the
most dramatic and pivotal moments of that most dramatic and pivotal
of decades. But until now, no book length treatment of the
challenge was available. Happily, Lisa Anderson Todd -- herself a
volunteer in Mississippi that summer--has now filled that void with
her compelling, personal account of those five consequential days
in Atlantic City and the impact they had on SNCC, the Democratic
Party, and, by extension, the country as a whole." -- Doug McAdam,
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar
America
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