The African American electorate : a statistical history / Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett, Donald R. Deskins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Hanes, Jr., 1941-2013.

Contributor:

Puckett, Sherman C., 1948-

Deskins, Donald Richard

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Suffrage--History--Statistics.

African Americans.

African Americans--Suffrage.

History.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xxxii, 918, I-22 pages): illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/CQ Press, [2012]

Summary:

This comprehensive two-volume reference work is a resource that includes voter registration information on African American voters from the early years of the country's colonial period to the present. The explanatory text, in addition to tabular data, original maps, and graphs is concise and informative. Descriptions of African American voters and populations is divided into eras (such as Colonial, Revolutionary Antebellum). Other subjects include suffrage referenda prior to the 15th Amendment, African American voting behavior before the 15th Amendment and after the abolition of slavery in the South, suffrage, the first African American political nominees and office holders, disenfranchisement, registration and voting in the South, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, African American voting rights in the historic election of President Barack Obama, and more. Authors are Walton, Jr. and Puckett (political science, U. of Michigan) and Deskins Jr. (political geographer and emeritus, sociology, U. of Michigan). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0872895084

9780872895089

OCLC:

462906646

Publisher Number:

99951776942