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FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH
BLACK VOTERS, BLACK CANDIDATES AND AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS |
| By: |
Ronald W. Walters |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0742548066 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780742548060 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
10 January, 2007 |
| Series: |
American Political Challenges |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Black voters can make or break a presidential election. This book traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2005, and shows why passing a law is not the same as ensuring its enforcement, legitimacy, and opportunity. |
| Synopsis: |
Black voters can make or break a presidential election-look at the close electoral results in 2000 and the difference the disenfranchised Black vote in Florida alone might have made. Black candidates can influence a presidential election-look at the effect that Jesse Jackson had on the Democratic party, the platform, and the electorate in 1984 and 1988, and the contributions to the Democratic debates that Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton made in 2004. American presidential politics can't get along without the Black vote-witness the controversy over candidates' appearing (or not) at the NAACP convention, or the extent to which candidates court (or not) the Black vote in a variety of venues. It all goes back to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which formally gave African Americans the right to vote, even if after all these years that right is continuously contested.In Freedom Is Not Enough (a quote from Lyndon Johnson's 1965 commencement address to Howard University just before signing the Voting Rights Act), Ron Walters traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2005, and shows why passing a law is not the same as ensuring its enforcement, legitimacy, and opportunity. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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Non-returnable |
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