A Free Ballot and a Fair Count : : The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South , 1877-1893 / / Robert Michael Goldman.
“A Free Ballot and a Fair Count” examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870–71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently ratified Fift...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reconstructing America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface to the New Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Constitutional and Political Background of Fifteenth Amendment Rights Enforcement
- 2. "A Meet Person Learned in the Law": The Attorney General and the Justice Department before 1877
- 3. The New Department and the New Departure: Voting Rights Enforcement under Hayes, 1877-1880
- 4. "A Free Ballot and a Fair Count": Voting Rights Enforcement and Independent Movements in the South,1880-1884
- 5. Voting Rights and the Democratic Interregnum, 1884-1888
- 6. Revitalization Again: Harrison and Voting Rights Enforcement, 1888-1893
- 7. Bureaucracy, Sectionalism, and the Demise of the "Free Ballot and a Fair Count"
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index