African Americans
Amendment
Annexation
Appellate court
At-large
Ballot
Black suffrage
Brown v. Board of Education
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Congressional district
Consent decree
Constitutional amendment
Constitutionality
Defendant
Disfranchisement
District Plan
Election
Election law
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Equal Protection Clause
Exclusion
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
General election
Gerrymandering
Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections
Incumbent
Jurisdiction
Lawyer
Legislation
Legislator
Legislature
Literacy test
Local election
Local government
Lyndon B. Johnson
Massive resistance
Mexican Americans
Minority group
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Plaintiff
Politician
Politics
Poll tax (United States)
Primary election
Provision (contracting)
Racial segregation
Racism
Redistricting
Referendum
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Single-member district
Smith v. Allwright
Sociology
Southern Regional Council
Special session
State constitution (United States)
State law (United States)
State senator
Statute
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Thornburg v. Gingles
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Voter Education Project
Voter registration
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Voting
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting system
White supremacy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691021089
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Chandler Davidson is Professor of Sociology at Rice University, and Bernard Grofman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine.
