A Free Ballot and a Fair Count : The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South , 1877-1893 /

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently rat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goldman, Robert Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Colección:Reconstructing America
Temas:
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface to the New Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Constitutional and Political Background of Fifteenth Amendment Rights Enforcement
  • 2. "A Meet Person Learned in the Law": The Attorney General and the Justice Department before 1877
  • 3. The New Department and the New Departure: Voting Rights Enforcement under Hayes, 1877-1880
  • 4. "A Free Ballot and a Fair Count": Voting Rights Enforcement and Independent Movements in the South,1880-1884
  • 5. Voting Rights and the Democratic Interregnum, 1884-1888
  • 6. Revitalization Again: Harrison and Voting Rights Enforcement, 1888-1893
  • 7. Bureaucracy, Sectionalism, and the Demise of the "Free Ballot and a Fair Count"
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index

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