The Right To Vote Politics And The Passage Of The Fifteenth Amendment

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421432366

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The Right to Vote by William Gillette Pdf

Originally published in 1965. The Right to Vote covers the immediate background, passage, and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Gillette contends that the Fifteenth Amendment was intended to give voting rights to African Americans in the north, sidelining those in the south. African American suffrage, in other words, had the pragmatic effect of bringing power to the Republicans of the north. In short, the Fifteenth Amendment was not a radical document but rather was pushed by Republican moderates in an effort to consolidate their power.

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0404613489

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The Right to Vote by William Gillette Pdf

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385390309

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Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter Pdf

An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky—she sees her family’s history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall America’s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard. "Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people’s fight for access to the ballot box." —The New York Times "A much-needed picture book that will enlighten a new generation about battles won and a timely call to uphold these victories in the present." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred "A valuable introduction to and overview of the civil rights movement." —Publishers Weekly, Starred "An important book that will give you goose bumps." —Booklist, Starred

Author : Susan Buckley
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 9781616721541

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Voting Rights by Susan Buckley Pdf

Author : Susan Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0766010333

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The Fifteenth Amendment by Susan Banfield Pdf

This book looks at the people behind the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment guaranteed all African American men in the United States, who had previously had very few rights under the Constitution, the right to vote. The author cites historical examples and personal stories in recounting the struggles involved in the passage of this amendment.

Author : Richard Sobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107128293

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Citizenship as Foundation of Rights by Richard Sobel Pdf

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.

Author : Steven F. Lawson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0739100874

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Black Ballots by Steven F. Lawson Pdf

Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"-the struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process. Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques-from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation-that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788728384633

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John Brown by Frederick Douglass Pdf

Written to honour the life of the eponymous abolitionist and activist, ‘John Brown’ is the transcript of a speech delivered by Douglass in 1860. While some saw Brown as a radical and a criminal, Douglass saw his friend as a man prepared to sacrifice his life so that others might be free. Passionate and powerful, the speech not only extolls Brown’s virtues, but also highlights the political and social issues faced by African Americans at the time. ́John Brown ́ is an important read for anyone with an interest in social justice and injustice. Frederick Douglass (1818-1995) was an American abolitionist and author. Born into slavery in Maryland, he was of African, European, and Native American descent. He was separated from his mother at a young age and lived with his grandmother until he was moved to another plantation. Frederick was taught his alphabet by the wife of one of his owners, a knowledge he passed on to other slaves. In 1838, he successfully escaped slavery by jumping on a north-bound train. After less than 24 hours, he was in New York and free. The same year, he married the woman that had inspired his run for freedom and started working actively as a social reformer, orator, statesman, and women’s rights defender. He remains most known today for his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave."

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393652581

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.

Author : Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465010141

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The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar Pdf

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

Author : Tova Wang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465598

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The Politics of Voter Suppression by Tova Wang Pdf

The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today. Wang argues that activities that suppress voting are almost always illegitimate, while reforms that increase participation are nearly always legitimate. In short, use and abuse of election laws and policies to suppress votes has obvious detrimental impacts on democracy itself. Such activities are also harmful because of their direct impacts on actual election outcomes. Wang regards as beneficial any legal effort to increase the number of Americans involved in the electoral system. This includes efforts that are focused on improving voter turnout among certain populations typically regarded as supporting one party, as long as the methods and means for boosting participation are open to all. Wang identifies and describes a number of specific legitimate and positive reforms that will increase voter turnout.

Author : Chandler Davidson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691021082

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Quiet Revolution in the South by Chandler Davidson Pdf

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 since 1965. The contributors use a variety of quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. They also explain modern voting rights law as it pertains to minority citizens, discussing important legal cases and giving numerous examples of how the law is applied. Destined to become a standard source of information on the history of the Voting Rights Act, Quiet Revolution in the South has implications for the controversies that are sure to continue over the direction in which the voting rights of American ethnic minorities have evolved since the 1960s.

Author : Robert Michael Goldman
Publisher : Landmark Law Cases & American
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0700610693

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Reconstruction and Black Suffrage by Robert Michael Goldman Pdf

"Goldman deftly highlights the cases of 'United States v. Reese' and 'United States v. Cruikshank' withing the context of an ongoing power struggle between state and federal authorities and the realities of being black in post-war America."--Back cover.

Author : Frank R. Parker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807869697

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Black Votes Count by Frank R. Parker Pdf

Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.

Author : Earl M. Maltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015018315203

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Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869 by Earl M. Maltz Pdf

Through a close analysis of legislative proceedings and of the precise language used, Maltz builds a strong case that Congressional actions on civil rights, including statutes such as the Freedman's Bureau Bill, the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as well as the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments of the early Reconstruction era generally reflected the ideology and intentions of the more conservative Republicans. These "moderates" advocated limited absolute equality rather than total racial equality and opposed the undue federal regulation of private and state actions.