In search of federal enforcement : the moral authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the integrity of the Black ballot, 1870-1965 /

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In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader's harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holloway, Vanessa A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2015]
Temas:
United States. > Constitution. > 15th Amendment.
United States. > Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Constitution (United States)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States)
1800 - 1999
African Americans > Suffrage > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > History > 20th century.
Voting > United States > History > 19th century.
Voting > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vote > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vote > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
African Americans > Suffrage
Voting
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the culpable Congress : the Enforcement Acts repealed
  • Protecting local credos, protecting whiteness : some consequences of administrational subterfuge
  • The "do-nothing congresses" : legal efforts met with failure
  • The wrong kind of politics : disfranchisement proceeds apace
  • Voting rights, voting wrongs : more legal chicanery
  • Ensuing challenges, which way is to daylight?
  • Appendix A: profiles of the 41st-89th Congress
  • Appendix B: Southern democratic senators 41st-89th Congress.

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