| Author |
May, Gary, 1944-
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| Publication |
Washington : Basic Books, 2013.
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| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
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text file |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Most Powerful Instrument; 1. Planting the First Seed; 2. An Ideal Place; 3. ""Give Us the Ballot""; 4. Nothing Can Stop Us; 5. To the Promised Land; 6. The Die Is Cast; 7. Breaking Down Injustice; 8. Where the Votes Are; 9. The Struggle of a Lifetime; Acknoledgments; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot. In Bending Toward Just. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Suffrage -- History. |
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Election law -- United States -- History. |
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Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History. |
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United States. |
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United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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African Americans -- Suffrage -- History.
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Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
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Election law -- United States -- History.
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LAW / Constitutional.
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LAW / Public.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| Addl. Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| Related To |
Print version: May, Gary Bending Toward Justice : The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy Washington : Basic Books, c2013 9780465018468 |
| ISBN |
9780465050734 (electronic bk.) |
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0465050735 (electronic bk.) |
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