This book is recommended pre-reading for the Good Governance Symposium Series, Voting Rights on March 1.  It will be featured in a statewide book club discussion on March 6, 1:30pm.

We will summarize the book to begin, so feel free to attend even if you have not finished the book.

"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 VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit it from the moment the act was signed into law. The VRA 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." - Macmillan Publishers, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America