Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote

The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power—over the right to vote, the central pillar of our democracy.Read More