Bending Toward Justice : The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Gary. May
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Washington : : Basic Books, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (337 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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
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| ISBN | 9780465018468
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