"A free ballot and a fair count" : the Department of Justice and the enforcement of voting rights in the South, 1877-1893 /

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Author / Creator:	Goldman, Robert Michael.
Imprint:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2001.
Description:	xxix, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Reconstructing America ; no. 6 Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 6.
Subject:	United States. -- Dept. of Justice -- History -- 19th century. United States. -- Department of Justice. African Americans -- Southern States -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Suffrage. Politics and government United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900. Southern States. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4428885

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ISBN:	0823220834 (hardcover) 0823220842 (pbk.)
Notes:	Originally published: New York : Garland, 1990, in series: Distinguished studies in American legal and constitutional history. With new front matter. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the New Edition
Preface
Introduction
1.. The Constitutional and Political Background of Fifteenth Amendment Rights Enforcement
2.. "A Meet Person Learned in the Law": The Attorney General and the Justice Department before 1877
3.. The New Department and the New Departure: Voting Rights Enforcement under Hayes, 1877-1880
4.. "A Free Ballot and a Fair Count": Voting Rights Enforcement and Independent Movements in the South, 1880-1884
5.. Voting Rights and the Democratic Interregnum, 1884-1888
6.. Revitalization Again: Harrison and Voting Rights Enforcement, 1888-1893
7.. Bureaucracy, Sectionalism, and the Demise of the "Free Ballot and a Fair Count"
Bibliographical Essay
Index

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