In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870-1965 - Hardcover

by Vanessa A. Holloway (Author)

This book is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. Holloway confronts this historical conundrum and offers keen observations about voting manipulations and electoral abuse by both government incumbents and private actors.

Author Biography

Vanessa A. Holloway teaches history courses at the City University of New York Medgar Evers College. She is also the author of Getting Away with Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate (University Press of America, 2014).