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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... racial equality through law- suits and legislation , I was especially drawn to the courage of the young people at the forefront of the sit - ins , freedom rides , and voter registration drives in the deep South . A quarter of a cen ...
... racial equality through law- suits and legislation , I was especially drawn to the courage of the young people at the forefront of the sit - ins , freedom rides , and voter registration drives in the deep South . A quarter of a cen ...
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... racial bias in electoral procedures that limited the power of African Americans and other minorities to select candidates ... race can be used as a criterion in drawing legislative districts to promote black political opportu- nities ...
... racial bias in electoral procedures that limited the power of African Americans and other minorities to select candidates ... race can be used as a criterion in drawing legislative districts to promote black political opportu- nities ...
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... Racial Change and Community Crisis : St. Augustine , Florida , 1877-1980 ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1985 ) ... Race and Democracy : The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisi- ana , 1915-1972 ( Athens : University of Georgia Press ...
... Racial Change and Community Crisis : St. Augustine , Florida , 1877-1980 ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1985 ) ... Race and Democracy : The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisi- ana , 1915-1972 ( Athens : University of Georgia Press ...
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... racial order within the South , it was necessary that the central government crushed this powerful resistance to Negro politi- cal equality . Extending the suffrage to blacks meant a readjustment of the boundaries within the federal ...
... racial order within the South , it was necessary that the central government crushed this powerful resistance to Negro politi- cal equality . Extending the suffrage to blacks meant a readjustment of the boundaries within the federal ...
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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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