
Black Votes Count
Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965
Frank R. Parker
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/2011
Pages: 272
Subject: Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807869697
DESCRIPTION
To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.
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