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Defying disfranchisement : Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 / R. Volney Riser.

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Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.

Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Purdy-Kresge Library	JK 1929 .A2 R57 2010	CHECKED IN

Description	[ix], 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	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.
ISBN	9780807136386 (hbk. : alk. paper)
	0807136387 (hbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC #	460061369

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