Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990

Published by Princeton University Press 1994

Quiet Revolution in the South

The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990

Edited by: Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225197

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About this book

This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization.

The book tells the story of the black struggle for equal political participation in eight core southern states from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s--with special emphasis on the period since 1965. The contributors use a variety of quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. They also explain modern voting rights law as it pertains to minority citizens, discussing important legal cases and giving numerous examples of how the law is applied. Destined to become a standard source of information on the history of the Voting Rights Act, Quiet Revolution in the South has implications for the controversies that are sure to continue over the direction in which the voting rights of American ethnic minorities have evolved since the 1960s.

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Chandler Davidson is Professor of Sociology at Rice University, and Bernard Grofman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM THE STATES
CHAPTER ONE The Recent Evolution of Voting Rights Law Affecting Racial and Language Minorities Chandler Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER TWO Alabama Peyton McCrary, Jerome A. Gray, Edward Still and Huey L. Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER THREE Georgia Laughlin McDonald, Michael B. Binford and Ken Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
CHAPTER FOUR Louisiana Richard L. Engstrom, Stanley A. Halpin, Jean A. Hill and Victoria M. Caridas-Butterworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
CHAPTER FIVE Mississippi Frank R. Parker, David C. Colby and Minion K. C. Morrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
CHAPTER SIX North Carolina William R. Keech and Michael P. Sistrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
CHAPTER SEVEN South Carolina Orville Vernon Burton, Terence R. Finnegan, Peyton McCrary and James W. Loewen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
CHAPTER EIGHT Texas Robert Brischetto, David R. Richards, Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER NINE Virginia Thomas R. Morris and Neil Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
PART TWO: THE SOUTHWIDE PERSPECTIVE
CHAPTER TEN The Effect of Municipal Election Structure on Black Representation in Eight Southern States Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Minority Representation: Black Office-holding in Southern State Legislatures and Congressional Delegations Lisa Handley and Bernard Grofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
CHAPTER TWELVE The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black and White Voter Registration in the South James E. Alt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Voting Rights Act and the Second Reconstruction Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
INDEX OF LEGAL CASES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
GENERAL INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493