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.
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.
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 The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed 1.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
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 The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed 1.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
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