“It Is Time to End All Talk of the Disenfranchisement of Black Voters in Florida”: How Al Gore Spurned Jesse Jackson’s Attempts to Protect Black Voting Rights

The year was 2000, Jesse Jackson was leading protests about Black voter suppression and 537 votes separated Al Gore from victory in the presidential election—but Gore didn’t want to talk about disenfranchisement or race, as Andrew Rice chronicles in his new book, The Year That Broke America.