Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969Lexington Books, 1999 - 474 páginas Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"--the struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process. Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques--from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation--that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them. |
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... discrimination in the South . Until the mid 1940s the Supreme Court sanctioned de- vices to perpetuate black disfranchisement , and the occupants of both the White House and Congress refrained from taking the necessary measures to ...
... discrimination in the South . Until the mid 1940s the Supreme Court sanctioned de- vices to perpetuate black disfranchisement , and the occupants of both the White House and Congress refrained from taking the necessary measures to ...
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... discrimination are as harmful as blatant ones . They have also departed from the legacy of the framers of the Voting Rights Act . These law- makers recognized the novel schemes white southerners had devised over the past century to ...
... discrimination are as harmful as blatant ones . They have also departed from the legacy of the framers of the Voting Rights Act . These law- makers recognized the novel schemes white southerners had devised over the past century to ...
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... discrimination because control over voting qualifications was considered the prerogative of the states . Yet in theory the central government , particularly by virtue of the Fifteenth Amendment , had substantial power to safeguard the ...
... discrimination because control over voting qualifications was considered the prerogative of the states . Yet in theory the central government , particularly by virtue of the Fifteenth Amendment , had substantial power to safeguard the ...
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... discrimination . The ballot was expected to bring both mate- rial and psychological rewards . Once Negroes exercised their vote , they could help elect sheriffs who would be less likely to brutalize them ; they would select officials ...
... discrimination . The ballot was expected to bring both mate- rial and psychological rewards . Once Negroes exercised their vote , they could help elect sheriffs who would be less likely to brutalize them ; they would select officials ...
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Contenido
The Strange Career of Black Disfranchisement | xix |
The Rise and Fall of the White Primary | 21 |
The Poll Tax Must Go | 53 |
The South Fights Back Boswellianism and Bilboism | 84 |
The Suffrage Crusade in the South The Early Phase | 114 |
Politics and the Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 | 138 |
Politics and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 | 163 |
Justice Delayed Justice Denied | 201 |
The Suffrage Crusade in the South The Kennedy Phase | 248 |
We Shall Overcome | 286 |
Free at Last? | 327 |
Notes | 351 |
Bibliography | 427 |
Index | 449 |
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