Black ballots : voting rights in the South, 1944-1969

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Label

Black ballots : voting rights in the South, 1944-1969

Title remainder

voting rights in the South, 1944-1969

Statement of responsibility

Steven F. Lawson

Creator

• Lawson, Steven F., 1945-

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States
• African Americans -- Political activity -- Southern States
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Suffrage
• African Americans | Voting rights United States. Southern states, 1944-1969.

Language

eng

Summary

• A thorough historical treatment of suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration
• Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"--The struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process. Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques--from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation--that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them. -- from http://www.amazon.com (August 26, 2011)

Member of

• Contemporary American history series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

324.6/2/08996073

Index

index present

LC call number

JK1929.A2

LC item number

L3

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Contemporary American history series