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The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy
Brennan Center LIVE
English - March 31, 2015 20:38 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNews Government politics voting campaignfinance democracy justice law massincarceration privacy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Darryl Pinckney’s new book, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, is a meditation on the intersection between civil rights and the history of black participation in U.S. electoral politics. Fifty years after the first passage of the Voting Rights Act, Pinckney investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Mr. Pinckney is joined by Wade Henderson, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Brennan's Washington D.C. office director, Nicole Austin-Hillery.