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Quiet revolution in the South : the impact of the Voting rights act, 1965-1990 /

This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the authors show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davidson, Chandler, Grofman, Bernard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The recent evolution of voting rights law affecting racial and language minorities / Chandler Davidson--Alabama / Peyton McCrary, Jerome A. Gray, Edward Still, Huey L. Perry--Georgia / Laughlin McDonald, Michael B. Binford, Ken Johnson--Louisiana / Richard L. Engstrom, Stanley A. Halpin, Jr., Jean A. Hill, Victoria M. Caridas-Butterworth--Mississippi / Frank R. Parker, David C. Colby, Minion K.C. Morrison.
  • North Carolina / William R. Keech, Michael P. Sistrom--South Carolina / Orville Vernon Burton, Terence R. Finnegan, Peyton McCrary, James W. Loewen--Texas / Robert Brischetto, David R. Richards, Chandler Davidson, Bernard Grofman--Virginia / Thomas R. Morris, Neil Bradley--The effect of municipal election structure on black representation in eight Southern states / Bernard Grofman, Chandler Davidson--The impact of the Voting Rights Act on minority representation: black officeholding in Southern state legislatures and congressional delegations / Lisa Handley, Bernard Grofman--The impact of the Voting Rights Act on black and white voter registration in the South / James E. Alt--The Voting Rights Act and the Second Reconstruction / Chandler Davidson, Bernard Grofman.