We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

With heart, eloquence, and powerful storytelling, Beto O'Rourke weaves together the heroic life and work of civil rights leader Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon, connecting voting rights and democracy to the major issues of our time.

In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the west Texas town where Nixon made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win on...