In Search of Federal Enforcement : The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Vanessa A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

African Americans--Suffrage--History--19th century--United States.

African Americans.

African Americans--Suffrage--History--20th century--United States.

Voting--History--19th century.

Voting.

Voting--History--20th Century.

United States.

Constitution (United States).

Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States).

United States. Constitution--15th Amendment.

Local Subjects:

United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Other Title:

In Search of Federal Enforcement

Place of Publication:

Lanham : UPA, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>is 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.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness; 2 The "Do-Nothing Congresses"; 3 The Wrong Kind of Politics; 4 Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs; 5 Ensuing Challenges, Which Way Is to Daylight?; Appendix A; Appendix B; Selected Bibliography

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7618-6577-2

0-7618-6576-4