
Author/Contributor(s): | Parker, Frank R |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
Date: | 05/25/1990 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political massive resistance strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief.