Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965

by Frank R. Parker

Book Overview

Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807842745
• ISBN13: 9780807842744
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Essential to understanding impact of voting rights act

This work is essential to an understanding of the impact on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It focuses on Mississippi, the state where African-Americans were almost completely disenfranchised as late as 1965. It traces the efforts of the Mississippi political establishment to evade the implementation of the Voting Rights Act and the persistence of the Civil Rights community in making certain that it be enforced