In Search of Federal Enforcement : The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (126 pages)
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.