Vanessa A. Holloway

In Search of Federal Enforcement

The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965

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Produktbeschreibung

This bookis a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. Holloway confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both government incumbents and private actors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780761865766
• ISBN-10: 0761865764
• Artikelnr.: 42375480

Autorenporträt

Vanessa A. Holloway teaches history courses at the City University of New York Medgar Evers College. She is also the author of Getting Away with Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate (University Press of America, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed 1.
Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness: Some Consequences of
Administrational Subterfuge 2. The "Do-Nothing" Congresses: Legal Efforts
Met with Failure 3. The Wrong Kind of Politics: Disfranchisement Proceeds
Apace 4. Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs: More Legal Chicanery 5. Ensuing
Challenges, Which Way is to Daylight? Appendix A. Profiles of the 41st-89th
Congress Appendix B. Southern Democratic Senators, 41st-89th Congress
Selected Bibliography