In Search of Federal Enforcement - The Moral Authority of Fifteenth Amendment Integrity of Black

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa A. Holloway teaches history courses at the City University of New York Medgar Evers College. She is also the author of Getting Away with Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate (University Press of America, 2014). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed1. Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness: Some Consequences of Administrational Subterfuge2. The "Do-Nothing" Congresses: Legal Efforts Met with Failure 3. The Wrong Kind of Politics: Disfranchisement Proceeds Apace4. Voting Rights, Voting Wrongs: More Legal Chicanery 5. Ensuing Challenges, Which Way is to Daylight?Appendix A. Profiles of the 41st-89th Congress Appendix B. Southern Democratic Senators, 41st-89th CongressSelected Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa A Holloway, Vanessa A. Holloway, Holloway Vanessa A.
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2015
• EAN: 9780761865766
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6576-6
• No. of pages: 124
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Central / national / federal government, Civics and citizenship, Central government