Defying disfranchisement
Subtitle: Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908
By: R. Volney Riser
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge, La
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780807136386
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : April 27, 1903; title: We must either fight or submit : phase one begins; title: If thine eye be evil : the road to Williams v. Mississippi; title: The grandfather clause : phase two begins; title: Negroes have organized : Alabama's disfranchisers, Black activists, and the courts; title: An appeal to the colored citizens of Alabama : registration and resistance; title: The enemies' works : the Alabama cases begin; title: Swords and torches : the Virginians enter the fray; title: The second Dred Scott case : Giles v. Harris is decided; title: The banner Negroes : fighting to the end.