Defying disfranchisement [electronic resource] : Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 / R. Volney Riser.
By: Riser, R. Volney.
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BookPublisher: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2010Description: [ix], 326 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): African Americans -- Suffrage -- Southern States | Voter registration -- Southern States | African American political activists | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century | Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 324.6/208996073075 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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