The African American Electorate: A Statistical History

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Cover Brief Contents Detailed Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 - The State of African American Election Data Chapter 2 - The Literature on the African American Electorate Chapter 3 - The African American Electorate in the Colonial Era, 1610–1773 Chapter 4 - The African American Electorate in the Revolutionary Era, 1774–1789 Chapter 5 - The Electoral Context in Antebellum America, 1788–1861: The Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause Chapter 6 - The African American Electorate in Antebellum and Civil War America, 1788–1867 Chapter 7 - The Reversal of African American Suffrage Rights prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788–1870 Chapter 8 - Suffrage Referenda Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1846–1870 Chapter 9 - Voting Behavior of the African American Electorate prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788–1870 Chapter 10 - The First African American Nominees and Public Office Holders, 1776–1870 Chapter 11 - The National Equal Rights League: An African American Suffrage Organization during and after the Civil War Chapter 12 - The Civil War Election and the African American Soldiers’ Vote, 1864 Chapter 13 - African American Voter Registration and Turnout in 1867 Southern State Elections: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Military Reconstruction Acts Chapter 14 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the South, 1868 and 1872 Chapter 15 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the Border, Midwest, and Far West States, 1868 and 1872 Chapter 16 - African American Voting Behavior in Subsequent Elections through Disenfranchisement, 1868–1920 Chapter 17 - African American Voting and Non-Voting Behavior in the Era of Disenfranchisement (1888–1908) and Beyond Chapter 18 - The Lodge Bill and Beyond: Proposed Federal Supervision of Federal Elections in the South, 1861–1921 Chapter 19 - African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876–1944: A Mobilizer of the Re-enfranchisement Drive in the South Chapter 20 - The Enfranchisement of African American Women, 1669–1921 Chapter 21 - The Electoral Revolt of African American Voters in 1920–1921 and Beyond Chapter 22 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1920–1944 Chapter 23 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1944–1965 Chapter 24 - Rare African American Registration and Voting Data: Episodic Events from the 1920s–1964 Chapter 25 - The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006 Chapter 26 - Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement: The Newest Technique of Vote Dilution and Candidate Diminution Chapter 27 - African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election: The 2008 Election of President Barack Obama Chapter 28 - Summary and Conclusions Appendices Cumulative Bibliography Copyright Acknowledgments Index