Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969

by Steven F. Lawson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739100874
• ISBN13: 9780739100875
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"