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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797267503321

Autore

Holloway Vanessa  A

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : UPA, 2015

ISBN

0-7618-6577-2

0-7618-6576-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Disciplina

342.73072

Soggetti

United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965

African Americans - Suffrage - History - 19th century - United States

African Americans - Suffrage - History - 20th century - United States

Voting - History - 19th century

Voting - History - 20th Century

Political Rights - U.S

Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S.,  General

Constitutional Law - U.S

Government - U.S

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>is 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.</span></span>