Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, And American Presidential Politics - Couverture rigide

Walters, Ronald W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0742538370 ISBN 13 : 9780742538375

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Walters Ronald W

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Black voters can make or break a presidential electionlook at the close electoral results in 2000 and the difference the disenfranchised Black vote in Florida alone might have made. Black candidates can influence a presidential electionlook at the effect that Jesse Jackson had on the Democratic party, the platform, and the electorate in 1984 and 1988, and the contributions to the Democratic debates that Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton made in 2004. American presidential politics can't get along without the Black votewitness the controversy over candidates' appearing (or not) at the NAACP convention, or the extent to which candidates court (or not) the Black vote in a variety of venues. It all goes back to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which formally gave African Americans the right to vote, even if after all these years that right is continuously contested. In Freedom Is Not Enough (a quote from Lyndon Johnson's 1965 commencement address to Howard University just before signing the Voting Rights Act), Ron Walters traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2005, and shows why passing a law is not the same as ensuring its enforcement, legitimacy, and opportunity.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0742538370
• ISBN 13: 9780742538375
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256