(Yes) And even after youve crossed the Red Sea, you have to move through a wilderness with prodigious hilltops of evil (Yes) and gigantic mountains of opposition. Fifty years ago, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, he felt, his daughter Luci said, a great sense of victory on one side and a great sense of fear on the other. According to Ari Berman, a political correspondent for The Nation, he knew the law would transform American politics and democracy more than any other civil rights bill in the 20th century, but he also feared that it would deliver the South to the Republican Party for years to come. Neither is acceptable. (Yes). (Yeah, Thats all right), We must meet hate with love. His book is about the people, the ballot box, and our as yet unrealized ideal of fully free and fair elections. Conservatives recently succeeded in weakening one of the Act's key provisions in the Supreme Court's Shelby Count, AL ruling. This book was supposed to trace the the US from the VRA to modern times, looking at the civil rights movements, political developments, the struggles and more. The recommendation the LVSC passed was "hand-marked paper ballots and ballot marking devices." Based upon its own recorded deliberations before the vote, the LVSC knew that the practical effect of its recommendation would give Ardoin complete discretion to implement either hand-marked paper ballots or BMDs as the primary voting method in . We all need to be a lot more aware about our rights and the many ways they are being chipped away at, bit by bit. Give us the ballot and we will fill our legislative halls with men of good-will."2 Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America Repetition. MP3 CD (8/4/2015) Ari Berman provides a historical look at the VRA, from the Civil Rights movement and the passage of the Act by President Johnson, up to the Shelby County vs Holder 2013 case heard by the Supreme Court. . In contrast to the generally positive reaction to the Pilgrimage, George Schuyler complained in his 25 May Pittsburgh Courier column that the event would have no influence whatever in the courts of civil rights legislation that a letter or telegram from each of the participants to the White House and the respective Senators and Representatives in Washington would not have had.. He is ultimately the hero of this narrative, even though many other players come in and take center stage at various moments. (Oh yes), There is another warning signal. (Yes sir, Yes) A people with fleecy locks and black complexion, but a people who injected new meaning into the veins of civilization (Yes); a people which stood up with dignity and honor and saved Western civilization in her darkest hour (Yes); a people that gave new integrity and a new dimension of love to our civilization.9 (Yeah, Look out) When that happens, the morning stars will sing together (Yes sir), and the sons of God will shout for joy.10 (Yes sir, All right) [applause] (Yes, Thats wonderful, All right).