Quiet Revolution in the South
The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990
This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization. The book tells the story of the black struggle for equal political participation in eight core southern states from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s--with special emphasis on the period sin…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Grofman, Bernard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-22519-7
- EAN: 9780691225197
- Produktnummer: 35196255
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 520 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'917 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 halftone 2 line illus.
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Edited by Chandler Davidson & Bernard Grofman
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