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Attempts to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation. This volume shows how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the US Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsEditors' Introduction3Ch. 1The Recent Evolution of Voting Rights Law Affecting Racial and Language Minorities21Ch. 2Alabama38Ch. 3Georgia67Ch. 4Louisiana103Ch. 5Mississippi136Ch. 6North Carolina155Ch. 7South Carolina191Ch. 8Texas233Ch. 9Virginia271Ch. 10The Effect of Municipal Election Structure on Black Representation in Eight Southern States301Ch. 11The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Minority Representation: Black Officeholding in Southern State Legislatures and Congressional Delegations335Ch. 12The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black and White Voter Registration in the South351Ch. 13The Voting Rights Act and the Second Reconstruction378Notes389Bibliography463Contributors485Index of Legal Cases489General Index493

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/06/1994
      ISBN13: 9780691021089, 978-0691021089
      ISBN10: 0691021082

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Attempts to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation. This volume shows how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the US Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization.

      Table of Contents
      List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsEditors' Introduction3Ch. 1The Recent Evolution of Voting Rights Law Affecting Racial and Language Minorities21Ch. 2Alabama38Ch. 3Georgia67Ch. 4Louisiana103Ch. 5Mississippi136Ch. 6North Carolina155Ch. 7South Carolina191Ch. 8Texas233Ch. 9Virginia271Ch. 10The Effect of Municipal Election Structure on Black Representation in Eight Southern States301Ch. 11The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Minority Representation: Black Officeholding in Southern State Legislatures and Congressional Delegations335Ch. 12The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black and White Voter Registration in the South351Ch. 13The Voting Rights Act and the Second Reconstruction378Notes389Bibliography463Contributors485Index of Legal Cases489General Index493

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