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This book is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americansâ 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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Introduction. The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed 1. Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness: Some Consequences of Administrational Subterfuge 2. The “Do-Nothing” Congresses: Legal Efforts Met with Failure 3. The Wrong Kind of Politics: Disfranchisement Proceeds Apace 4. 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 Congress Selected Bibliography

In Search of Federal Enforcement The Moral

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: 5/8/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761865766, 978-0761865766
      ISBN10: 0761865764

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      Book Synopsis
      This book is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americansâ 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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction. The Culpable Congress: The Enforcement Acts Repealed 1. Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness: Some Consequences of Administrational Subterfuge 2. The “Do-Nothing” Congresses: Legal Efforts Met with Failure 3. The Wrong Kind of Politics: Disfranchisement Proceeds Apace 4. 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 Congress Selected Bibliography

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