Research Catalog

Title

The Voting Rights Act : securing the ballot / Richard M. Valelly, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Valelly, Richard M.

Description

xix, 370 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the Voting Rights Act which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, and describes the events leading up to it, the evolution of voting rights in the U.S., disenfranchisement of African Americans after Reconstruction, and the impact of this legislation.

Series Statement

Landmark events in U.S. history series

Uniform Title

Landmark events in U.S. history series

Subject

• United States
• African Americans > Suffrage > History
• Minorities > Suffrage > History. > United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Building African American voting rights in the nineteenth century / Xi Wang -- Disenfranchisement and its impact on the political system / Robert C. Lieberman -- The Supreme Court and Black disenfranchisement / Michael J. Klarman -- Rebuilding Black voting rights before the Voting Rights Act / Paula D. McClain ... [et al.] -- Making the Voting Rights Act / Stephen Tuck -- Extensions of the Voting Rights Act / Colin D. Moore -- Impact of the 'core' Voting Rights Act on voting and officeholding / David A. Bositis -- The Voting Rights Act and its implications for three nonblack minorities / Pei-te Lien -- The Voting Rights Act and its discontents / Mark Rush -- Federal oversight of elections and partisan realignment / Laughlin McDonald.

ISBN

1568029896 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005033371

OCLC

• 62324891
• SCSB-10044042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library