Black Ballots

Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"—the struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process.Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques—from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation—that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-10-13
Mått:150 x 229 x 38 mm
Vikt:721 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:496
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739100875

Utforska kategorier

Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Steven F. Lawson is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Recensioner i media

With the publication of historian Steven Lawson's excellent study of the campaigns for voting rights in the South, we have welcome evidence that scholarship concerned with black activism and governmental policies in post-World War II America is alive and thriving.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 The Strange Career of Black DisfranchisementChapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the White PrimaryChapter 3 The Poll Tax Must GoChapter 4 The South Fights Back: Boswellianism and BilboismChapter 5 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Early PhaseChapter 6 Politics and the Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1957Chapter 7 Politics and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957Chapter 8 Justice Delayed. . . Justice DeniedChapter 9 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Kennedy PhaseChapter 10 We Shall OvercomeChapter 11 Free at Last?Chapter 12 NotesChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index