Defying disfranchisement [electronic resource] : Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 / R. Volney Riser.
Publication details: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.Description: [ix], 326 pISBN:- 9780807136386 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807136387 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 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 -- 1865-1950
- 324.6/208996073075 22
- JK1929.A2 R57 2010eb
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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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