Quiet Revolution in the South : : The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 / / ed. by Bernard Grofman, Chandler Davidson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alt, James E.,; Binford, Michael B.,; Bradley, Neil,; Brischetto, Robert,; Caridas-Butterworth, Victoria M.,; Colby, David C.,; Davidson, Chandler,; Engstrom, Richard L.,; Finnegan, Terence R.,; Gray, Jerome A.,; Grofman, Bernard,; Halpin, Stanley A.,; Handley, Lisa,; Hill, Jean A.,; Johnson, Ken,; Keech, William R.,; Loewen, James W.,; McCrary, Peyton,; McDonald, Laughlin,; Morris, Thomas R.,; Morrison, Minion K. C.,; Parker, Frank R.,; Perry, Huey L.,; Richards, David R.,; Sistrom, Michael P.,; Still, Edward,; Vernon Burton, Orville,
• HerausgeberIn: Davidson, Chandler,; Grofman, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 1 halftone 2 line illus.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM THE STATES -- CHAPTER ONE The Recent Evolution of Voting Rights Law Affecting Racial and Language Minorities -- CHAPTER TWO Alabama -- CHAPTER THREE Georgia -- CHAPTER FOUR Louisiana -- CHAPTER FIVE Mississippi -- CHAPTER SIX North Carolina -- CHAPTER SEVEN South Carolina -- CHAPTER EIGHT Texas -- CHAPTER NINE Virginia -- PART TWO: THE SOUTHWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER TEN The Effect of Municipal Election Structure on Black Representation in Eight Southern States -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Minority Representation: Black Office-holding in Southern State Legislatures and Congressional Delegations -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black and White Voter Registration in the South -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Voting Rights Act and the Second Reconstruction -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF LEGAL CASES -- GENERAL INDEX