Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America — Rights in Reverse
What happens when a democracy concludes that a safeguard is no longer necessary because the safeguard appears to have worked?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman as our lens, this investigation traces the transformation of American voting rights from the Selma campaign and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the institutional counterrevolution that followed.
Berman argues that the expansion of political participation repeatedly produced efforts to redesign the…
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