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Author | : Frank R. Parker |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807869694 |
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Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Gordon A. Martin |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2011-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1604737905 |
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Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls. United States v. Lynd was the first trial that resulted in the conviction of a southern registrar for contempt of court. The case served as a model for other challenges to voter discrimination in the South, and was an important influence in shaping the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Count Them One by One is a comprehensive account of the groundbreaking case written by one of the Justice Department's trial attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a newly-minted lawyer, traveled to Hattiesburg from Washington to help shape the federal case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the government's sixteen black witnesses who had been refused registration, found white witnesses, and was one of the lawyers during the trial. Decades later, Martin returned to Mississippi and interviewed the still-living witnesses, their children, and friends. Martin intertwines these current reflections with commentary about the case itself. The result is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the South.
Author | : Mississippi League of Women Voters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Elections |
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Download A Guide for Mississippi Voters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William H. Lawson |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1496816382 |
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The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Ed King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform aimed at obtaining votes, justice, jobs, and education for blacks in the Magnolia State. Through speeches, photographs, media coverage, and campaign materials, William H. Lawson examines the rhetoric and methods of the Mississippi Freedom Vote. Lawson looks at the vote itself rather than the already much-studied events surrounding it, an emphasis new in scholarship. Even though the actual campaign was carried out from October 13 to November 4, the Freedom Vote's impact far transcended those few weeks in the fall. Campaign manager Bob Moses rightly calls the Freedom Vote "one of the most unique voting campaigns in American history." Lawson demonstrates that the Freedom Vote remains a key moment in the history of civil rights in Mississippi, one that grew out of a rich tradition of protest and direct action. Though the campaign is overshadowed by other major events in the arc of the civil rights movement, Lawson regards the Mississippi Freedom Vote as an early and crucial exercise of citizenship in a lineage of racial protest during the 1960s. While more attention has been paid to the March on Washington and the protests in Birmingham or to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Freedom Summer murders, this book yields a long-overdue, in-depth analysis of this crucial movement.
Author | : Mississippi. Attorney-General's Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
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Download Mississippi Absentee Voters Law for Qualified Electors in the Armed Services (chapter 202, Laws 1942) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Buchanan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Voting |
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Author | : Tip H. Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Republican Party (Miss.). State Executive Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : |
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Download An Address to the Honest Voters of the Country on the Mississippi Election Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alice Faye Duncan |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684379792 |
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Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People's Book Prize for Social Justice This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history. The late 1950s was a turbulent time in Fayette County, Tennessee. Black and White children went to different schools. Jim Crow signs hung high. And while Black hands in Fayette were free to work in the nearby fields as sharecroppers, the same Black hands were barred from casting ballots in public elections. If they dared to vote, they faced threats of violence by the local Ku Klux Klan or White citizens. It wasn't until Black landowners organized registration drives to help Black citizens vote did change begin--but not without White farmers' attempts to prevent it. They violently evicted Black sharecroppers off their land, leaving families stranded and forced to live in tents. White shopkeepers blacklisted these families, refusing to sell them groceries, clothes, and other necessities. But the voiceless did finally speak, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which legally ended voter discrimination. Perfect for young readers, teachers/librarians, and parents interested in books for kids with themes of: Activism Social justice Civil rights Black history