Voting rights act : historical context and associated issues and trends /
SECTION 2 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT; SECTION 4(B) OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT-INVALIDATED BY U.S. SUPREME COURT IN SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER; SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT; SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER: COVERAGE FORMULA HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL; CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING LEGISLATION; VOTING RIGHTS ACT LEGI...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nova Publishers,
[2014]
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| Series: | Congressional policies, practices and procedures series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | SECTION 2 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT; SECTION 4(B) OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT-INVALIDATED BY U.S. SUPREME COURT IN SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER; SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT; SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER: COVERAGE FORMULA HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL; CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING LEGISLATION; VOTING RIGHTS ACT LEGISLATION; Chapter 3: AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS: 1870-2012; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMBERS IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS; CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS; TABLES AND DATA. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is a landmark federal law enacted in 1965 to remove race-based restrictions on voting. It is perhaps the country's most important voting rights law, with a history that dates to the Civil War. After that conflict ended, a number of constitutional amendments were adopted that addressed the particular circumstances of freed slaves, including the Fifteenth Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for all U.S. citizens regardless of ""race, color, or previous condition of servitude."" This book provides background information on the historical circumstances that led |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 26, 2014). Includes index. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781633219946 1633219941 |
