A Free Ballot and a Fair Count: The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South, 1877-1893

by Robert Michael Goldman

Book Overview

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently ratified Fifteenth Amendment. The Enforcement Acts set forth a range of federally enforceable crimes aimed at combating white southerners' attempts to deny or restrict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823220834
• ISBN13: 9780823220830
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"