Offsite Event – Protecting Our Vote: A Conversation with Eric Holder and Ari Berman
Date and Time
Oct 23, 2019 7:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 23, 2019 7:00 pm
14th & V
This event is an offsite event and will be held at the Lisner Auditorium. To purchase your ticket click here.
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.
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.
