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The African American Electorate
A Statistical History

Two Volume Set

July 2012 | 1 024 pages | CQ Press

How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate: A Statistical History attempts to answer by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span.

Combining insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans’ voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America’s political history.


 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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 to 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
 
Chapter 19. African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876–1944
 
Chapter 20. The Enfranchisement of African American Women: 1669–1921
 
Chapter 21. The Electoral Revolt of the 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
 
Chapter 25. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006
 
Chapter 26. Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
 
Chapter 27. African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election
 
Chapter 28. Summary and Conclusions
 
Appendices
 
Cumulative Bibliography
 
Copyright Acknowledgments
 
Index

"This unique and original resource investigates the African American voting experience from colonial times
to the present...Overall, this source is a cross between a reference work and an in-depth academic analysis. With its hundreds of charts and footnotes, it has elements of both. The level of depth here makes this resource more appropriate for academic libraries
."

Michael Tosko
Booklist

"This work stands out by going beyond a strict linear examination of the African American electorate to present an overlapping analysis that reflects the historical ebbs and flows of participation and disenfranchisement. An outstanding contribution to research on the African American electorate."

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Key features

·         Election return data for African American candidates in national and sub-national elections

·         Insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps

·         Chronological chapters from the colonial era to the present capturing major eras in African American voting behavior

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