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The Dream Is Lost : Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia /
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Series: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Strictly political : racial and urban politics and the rise of the Richmond crusade for voters before 1965
- 2. Systematically done in : black electoral empowerment, vote dilution, and the push for annexation after the Voting Rights Act
- 3. From intent to effect : the long struggle for voting rights litigation during the 1970s
- 4. "The dream is lost" : henry marsh and black governance in an era of white political resistance
- 5. "All he gave me was a foot" : black technocrats, Richmond's urban woes, and the crisis of the crusade for voters
- Conclusion
- Appendix. City Council election data, city of Richmond, Virginia, 1960-1984.