In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965

by Vanessa A. Holloway

This bookis a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. Holloway confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both government incumbents and private actors.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761865764
• ISBN13: 9780761865766
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"