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In Search of Federal Enforcement : The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : University Press of America, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (126 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780761865773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Search of Federal EnforcementDDC classification:
  • 324.6/208996073
LOC classification:
  • KF4893
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness -- 2 The "Do-Nothing Congresses" -- 3 The Wrong Kind of Politics -- 4 Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs -- 5 Ensuing Challenges, Which Way Is to Daylight? -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Selected Bibliography.
Summary: This bookis a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. Holloway confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both government incumbents and private actors.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness -- 2 The "Do-Nothing Congresses" -- 3 The Wrong Kind of Politics -- 4 Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs -- 5 Ensuing Challenges, Which Way Is to Daylight? -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Selected Bibliography.

This bookis a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. Holloway confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both government incumbents and private actors.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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