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In Search of Federal Enforcement
The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965
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2015
Summary
In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans’ voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader’s harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent in protecting the exercise of the franchise for black Americans until the 1965 Voting Rights Act. As Holloway explains, much of this problem stemmed from Southern Democrats operating in tandem with the power of private actors to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment. This mutual-advantage partnership codified disfranchisement, safeguarded the interests of recalcitrant Southern states and localities, and defended local systems of privilege. In the pages of this timely study, Holloway lays bare the abject failure of the national government and critically evaluates how the Southern status quo stimulated chaos at the national level. Despite market paradigms, In Search of Federal Enforcement confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both incumbents and private actors.
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Edition
1/2015
Copyright Year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6576-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6577-3
Publisher
University Press, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
112
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1 Protecting Local Credos, Protecting Whiteness No access Pages 15 - 22
2 The “Do-Nothing Congresses” No access Pages 23 - 30
3 The Wrong Kind of Politics No access Pages 31 - 38
