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Title Voting rights in America : continuing the quest for full participation / Mary Frances Berry ... [and others] ; edited by Karen McGill Arrington & William L. Taylor.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Leadership Conference Education Fund : Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, [1992]
©1992

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 Moore Stacks  KF4893.A75 V67 1992    Available  ---
Description xv, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Note "Including an essay by Bill Clinton."
Includes papers presented at LCEF's conference in 1988.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / David Kusnet -- The contstitution and the franchise : The struggle to gain the right to vote: 1787-1965 / Karen McGill Arrington -- A promise yet unfulfilled / Judge Damon Keith -- Voting, voting rights, and political power in American history / Mary Frances Berry -- The franchise from reconstruction to the present : The Civil War amendments: the second constitution and the evolving political struggle / Charles V. Hamilton -- Development of the franchise: 1957-1980 / Armand Derfner -- Development of the franchise: 1982 voting rights amendments / Lani Guinier -- The impact of the vote : Southern odyssey: two decades of racial evolution / Margaret Edds -- Muted voices: a comparative perspective of women's and blacks' voting participation / Celinda Lake.
Citizen action in voting : State initiatives to increase citizen participation / Bill Clinton -- Native American political participation / Jeanette Wolfley -- In pursuit of political equality / Henry Der -- Bringing voting to the people / Al Raby.
Subject African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- Congresses.
African Americans -- Suffrage.
History.
Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
Minorities -- Suffrage.
United States.
Voter registration -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
Voter registration.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Berry, Mary Frances.
Arrington, Karen McGill.
Taylor, William L., 1931-2010.
Leadership Conference Education Fund.
ISBN 0941410528 cloth alkaline paper
0941410552 paperback alkaline paper