Achieving the 26th Amendment: A History with Primary Sources

by Rebecca de Schweinitz and Jennifer Frost

This book is a collection of primary source documents and analysis that illustrates the forgotten history of the fight to lower the voting age to eighteen in the twentieth-century United States.

Proposed, passed, and ratified in 1971, the 26th Amendment gave the right to vote to 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds and prohibited discrimination in voting "on account of age." Recognizing young Americans as first-class citizens with a political voice,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032334827
• ISBN13: 9781032334820
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"