Holloway, Vanessa A.

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.

9780761865773


United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.


Electronic books.

KF4893

324.6/208996073