The Voting Rights Act : securing the ballot /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2006.
Description:	xix, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Voting Rights Act of 1965. Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States) African Americans -- Suffrage -- History. Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History. African Americans -- Suffrage. Minorities -- Suffrage. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5774149

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Other authors / contributors:	Valelly, Richard M.
ISBN:	1568029896 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Documents
Preface
Contributors
1. Building African American Voting Rights in the Nineteenth Century
2. Disenfranchisement and Its Impact on the Political System
3. The Supreme Court and Black Disenfranchisement
4. Rebuilding Black Voting Rights before the Voting Rights Act
5. Making the Voting Rights Act
6. Extensions of the Voting Rights Act
7. Impact of the 'Core' Voting Rights Act on Voting and Officeholding
8. The Voting Rights Act and Its Implications for Three Nonblack Minorities
9. The Voting Rights Act and Its Discontents
10. Federal Oversight of Elections and Partisan Realignment
Documents
Appendix. Reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act: What Expires and What Does Not
Index

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