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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Hanes, 1941-

Contributor:

Deskins, Donald Richard.

Puckett, Sherman C., 1948-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

African Americans--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 918, I-22 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions this book answers by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from colonial America to the present.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Brief Contents""; ""Detailed Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - The State of African American Election Data""; ""Chapter 2 - The Literature on the African American Electorate""; ""Chapter 3 - The African American Electorate in the Colonial Era, 1610�1773""; ""Chapter 4 - The African American Electorate in the Revolutionary Era, 1774�1789""; ""Chapter 5 - The Electoral Context in Antebellum America, 1788�1861: The Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause""; ""Chapter 6 - The African American Electorate in Antebellum and Civil War America, 1788�1867""

""Chapter 7 - The Reversal of African American Suffrage Rights prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788�1870""""Chapter 8 - Suffrage Referenda Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1846�1870""; ""Chapter 9 - Voting Behavior of the African American Electorate prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788�1870""; ""Chapter 10 - The First African American Nominees and Public Office Holders, 1776�1870""; ""Chapter 11 - The National Equal Rights League: An African American Suffrage Organization during and after the Civil War""

""Chapter 12 - The Civil War Election and the African American Soldiers� Vote, 1864""""Chapter 13 - African American Voter Registration and Turnout in 1867 Southern State Elections: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Military Reconstruction Acts""; ""Chapter 14 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the South, 1868 and 1872""

""Chapter 15 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the Border, Midwest, and Far West States, 1868 and 1872""""Chapter 16 - African American Voting Behavior in Subsequent Elections through Disenfranchisement, 1868�1920""; ""Chapter 17 - African American Voting and Non-Voting Behavior in the Era of Disenfranchisement (1888�1908) and Beyond""; ""Chapter 18 - The Lodge Bill and Beyond: Proposed Federal Supervision of Federal Elections in the South, 1861�1921""

""Chapter 19 - African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876�1944: A Mobilizer of the Re-enfranchisement Drive in the South""""Chapter 20 - The Enfranchisement of African American Women, 1669�1921""; ""Chapter 21 - The Electoral Revolt of African American Voters in 1920�1921 and Beyond""; ""Chapter 22 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1920�1944""; ""Chapter 23 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1944�1965""; ""Chapter 24 - Rare African American Registration and Voting Data: Episodic Events from the 1920s�1964""

""Chapter 25 - The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781452234397

1452234396

9781452234380

1452234388

OCLC:

811565637