Chapter 1 The Strange Career of Black Disfranchisement Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the White Primary Chapter 3 The Poll Tax Must Go Chapter 4 The South Fights Back: Boswellianism and Bilboism Chapter 5 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Early Phase Chapter 6 Politics and the Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Chapter 7 Politics and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Chapter 8 Justice Delayed. . . Justice Denied Chapter 9 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Kennedy Phase Chapter 10 We Shall Overcome Chapter 11 Free at Last? Chapter 12 Notes Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index
Steven F. Lawson is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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*
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