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Fifteenth Amendment
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literacy tests
minority voting rights
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Southern Democrats
states' rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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- ISBN 9780761865766
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 160 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2015
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans’ voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader’s harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent in protecting the exercise of the franchise for black Americans until the 1965 Voting Rights Act. As Holloway explains, much of this problem stemmed from Southern Democrats operating in tandem with the power of private actors to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment. This mutual-advantage partnership codified disfranchisement, safeguarded the interests of recalcitrant Southern states and localities, and defended local systems of privilege. In the pages of this timely study, Holloway lays bare the abject failure of the national government and critically evaluates how the Southern status quo stimulated chaos at the national level. Despite market paradigms, In Search of Federal Enforcement confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both incumbents and private actors.
Vanessa A. Holloway teaches history courses at the City University of New York Medgar Evers College. She is also the author of Getting Away with Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate (University Press of America, 2014).
