Cover

Brief Contents

Detailed Contents

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: The Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause

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: An African American Suffrage Organization during and after the Civil War

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: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Military Reconstruction Acts

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, 1868–1920

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: Proposed Federal Supervision of Federal Elections in the South, 1861–1921

Chapter 19 - African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876–1944: A Mobilizer of the Re-enfranchisement Drive in the South

Chapter 20 - The Enfranchisement of African American Women, 1669–1921

Chapter 21 - The Electoral Revolt of 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: Episodic Events from the 1920s–1964

Chapter 25 - The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006

Chapter 26 - Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement: The Newest Technique of Vote Dilution and Candidate Diminution

Chapter 27 - African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election: The 2008 Election of President Barack Obama

Chapter 28 - Summary and Conclusions

Appendices

Cumulative Bibliography

Copyright Acknowledgments

Index