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Defying disfranchisement : Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riser, R. Volney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 19th century.
African American political activists.
Voter registration > Southern States.
African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : April 27, 1903
  • We must either fight or submit : phase one begins
  • If thine eye be evil : the road to Williams v. Mississippi
  • The grandfather clause : phase two begins
  • Negroes have organized : Alabama's disfranchisers, Black activists, and the courts
  • An appeal to the colored citizens of Alabama : registration and resistance
  • The enemies' works : the Alabama cases begin
  • Swords and torches : the Virginians enter the fray
  • The second Dred Scott case : Giles v. Harris is decided
  • The banner Negroes : fighting to the end.