Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics

by Ronald W. Walters

Book Overview

Black voters can make or break a presidential election-look at the close electoral results in 2000 and the difference the disenfranchised Black vote in Florida alone might have made. Black candidates can influence a presidential election-look at the effect that Jesse Jackson had on the Democratic party, the platform, and the electorate in 1984 and 1988, and the contributions to the Democratic debates that Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton made in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742548066
• ISBN13: 9780742548060
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.9"