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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: bench and the ballot
    sub title: southern Federal judges and Black voters
  name:
    name part: Hamilton, Charles V.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1973
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 258 pages ; 22 cm
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Colloquy on the judicial approach. Objections to utilizing the federal courts; Arguments favoring a judicial approach -- 2. Federal courts and the black vote before 1957. State-action stage; Registrar-oriented stage; Extra-legal stage -- 3. Congress enacts. Accent on voting; Jury trial battle; First law in eighty-two years; Half-loaf/whole-loaf controversy; Revisions: registrars or referees; Second law in three years -- 4. President reacts. 1957- An administration against itself; 1960- Administration moderation; 1961-1963- Emphasis on executive fiat -- 5. Judicial aggressiveness. Registrar practices in three black belt counties; Judge as registrar; Judge sets standards; Judge as overseer -- 6. Judicial resistance. Fight to inspect records; "An interminable pleading duel": Forrest County, Mississippi; Delay, inaction, and a suit against the judge: Bolivar County, Mississippi; Delay, details, and a Pyrrhic victory: Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. -- 7. "Training the judge": Judicial gradualism -- 8. Intimidation: the courts and "political termites". Physical reprisal and intimidation by prosecution; Mass economic retaliation: the Tennessee sharecroppers; The economic squeeze: a Louisiana farmer; To hire and fire: the Mississippi schoolteacher -- 9. White judges and black ballots: Some observations. The trial situation as impetus; the fate of registration obstacles -- 10. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. Protest and politics; Progress and persistent problems.
  note: Charles V. Hamilton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    topic: Voter registration
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Voter suppression
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
  subject:
    topic: Noirs américains
    topic: Suffrage
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government - Elections
  subject:
    topic: Law - Legal system - Judiciary
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
  subject:
    topic: Judges
  subject:
    topic: Voter registration
  subject:
    topic: Voter suppression
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Wahlrecht
  subject:
    geographic: USA
    topic: Südstaaten
  subject:
    topic: Schwarze
  subject:
    topic: Voter registration
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    geographic: Schwarze
  classification: KF4893 .H34 1973
  classification: JK1924 .H34
  classification: 342/.75/07
  classification: KM83.46.G1 H365 1973
  classification: PL 733
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bench and the ballot
    name:
      name part: Hamilton, Charles V.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Oxford University Press, 1973
    identifier: (OCoLC)742776790
  identifier: 0195017188
  identifier: 9780195017182
  identifier: 73082668
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 731129
    record change date: 20230927123606.0
    record identifier: in00000201613
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng