Binding: Paperback
Description: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Nonfiction Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR The Boston Globe and Kirkus Reviews (Best Nonfiction) Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. In this groundbreaking narrative history Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VR a and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit it from the moment the act was signed into law. The VR a is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement and yet more than fifty years later the battles over race representation and political power continue as lawmakers devise new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth while the Supreme Court has declared a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Through meticulous research in - depth interviews and incisive on - the - ground reporting Give Us the Ballot offers the first comprehensive history of its kind and provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.
Title: Give Us The Ballot The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America
Author(s): Berman Ari
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250094728
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/2/2016
Category: History Of The Americas