TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holloway,Vanessa A.
TI  - In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965
SN  - 9780761865773
AV  - KF4893 
U1  - 324.6/208996073 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - University Press of America, Incorporated
KW  - United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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