Two Reconstructions The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement

Name: Two Reconstructions The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement
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ISBN: 9780226845302

ISBN-10: 0226845303

ISBN-13: 9780226845302

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard M. Valelly

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Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only a few decades. Ultimately a "second reconstruction"—associated with the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act—became necessary. How did the first reconstruction fail so utterly, setting the stage for the complete disenfranchisement of Southern black voters, and why did the second succeed? These are among the questions Richard M. Valelly answers in this fascinating…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.430



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Strange Career of African American Voting and Office-Holding



Forging the Coalition of 1867-1868



Incomplete Institutionalization



Party-Building during the First Reconstruction



The Limits of Jurisprudence-Building



The Vortex of Racial Disenfranchisement



Heralding the Second Reconstruction: The Coalition of 1948



The Coalition of 1961-1965



How the Second Reconstruction Stabilized



Institutions and Enfranchisement


Notes


Index