Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Contemporary American History Series) - Hardcover

Lawson, Steven F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231039786 ISBN 13: 9780231039789

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1976

Synopsis

Examines the process by which Southern blacks gained the right to vote, concentrating on the roles played by major civil-rights organizations from World War II to the Johnson administration

About this title

About the Author:

Steven F. Lawson is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Review:

With the publication of historian Steven Lawson's excellent study of the campaigns for voting rights in the South, we have welcome evidence that scholarship concerned with black activism and governmental policies in post-World War II America is alive and thriving. (Reviews in American History)

Thoroughly researched and skillfully argued, this volume is an important contribution to the study of the civil rights revolution. (The Historian)

As Lawson observes, only the foundations of change have been laid; the main struggle for reform lies ahead. This book demonstrates how it is possible to write excellent history which is also good political science. (Political Studies Review)

Through his impressive research in a host of important but relatively unexploited sources Lawson has filled in details, examined the role of civil rights organizations and pressure groups, and clarified the process through which civil rights legislation made its way through Congress. . . . Readers are likely to find this book a valuable summary of a subject that has not been dealt with so thoroughly before. (Journal of Southern History)

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0231039786
• ISBN 13: 9780231039789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 474