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Author Valelly, Richard M
Title The two reconstructions : the struggle for Black enfranchisement / Richard M. Valelly
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004

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Ch. 1The strange career of African American voting and office-holding1
Ch. 2Forging the coalition of 1867-186823
Ch. 3Incomplete institutionalization47
Ch. 4Party-building during the first reconstruction73
Ch. 5The limits of jurisprudence-building99
Ch. 6The vortex of racial disenfranchisement121
Ch. 7Heralding the second reconstruction : the coalition of 1948149
Ch. 8The coalition of 1961-1965173
Ch. 9How the second reconstruction stabilized199
Ch. 10Institutions and enfranchisement225
Description xvii, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Series American politics and political economy
American politics and political economy
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-311) and index
Contents 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
Summary Although the Reconstruction of the Southern States in the wake of the Civil War got off to a promising start, it failed to deliver African Americans from disenfranchisement and discrimination. Valelly considers this failure & why the second 'reconstruction' of the mid 20th century became a success
Subjects African Americans -- Suffrage -- History
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
African Americans -- Politics and government
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
Political parties -- United States -- History
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Election law -- United States -- History
Genre/Form History. fast
LC NO JK1924 .V35 2004
Dewey No 323.1196/073/009 22
OCLC # 55502736
ISBN 0226845281 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226845289 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226845303 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226845302 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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