Defying Disfranchisement : Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 /

In Defying Disfranchisement, R. Volney Riser documents a number of lawsuits challenging various requirements--including literacy tests, poll taxes, and white primaries--designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twelv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Riser, R. Volney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Voter registration.
Politics and government.
African Americans > Suffrage.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American political activists.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Activistes noirs americains.
Noirs americains > Suffrage > États-Unis (Sud)
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Voter registration > Southern States.
African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1950.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : April 27, 1903
  • We must either fight or submit : phase one begins
  • If thine eye be evil : the road to Williams v. Mississippi
  • The grandfather clause : phase two begins
  • Negroes have organized : Alabama's disfranchisers, Black activists, and the courts
  • An appeal to the colored citizens of Alabama : registration and resistance
  • The enemies' works : the Alabama cases begin
  • Swords and torches : the Virginians enter the fray
  • The second Dred Scott case : Giles v. Harris is decided
  • The banner Negroes : fighting to the end.

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