Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 - Couverture souple

Riser, R. Volney

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080715010X ISBN 13 : 9780807150108

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Defying Disfranchisement, R. Volney Riser documents a number of lawsuits challenging various requirements--including literacy tests, poll taxes, and white primaries--designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twelve of these cases wended their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and that body coldly ignored the systematic disfranchisement of black southerners. Nevertheless, as Riser shows, the attempts themselves were stunning and demonstrate that even at one of their bleakest hours, African Americans sheltered and nurtured a hope that would lead to wholesale changes in the American legal and political landscape.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

R. Volney Riser is cochair of the Department of History and Social Science at the University of West Alabama in Livingston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080715010X
• ISBN 13: 9780807150108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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