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Freedom Is Not Enough
- Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics
Engelsk Paperback
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Freedom Is Not Enough
- Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics
Engelsk Paperback

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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 he signed the Voting Rights Act), Ronald W. 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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780742548060
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0742548066
Udg. Dato:
10 jan 2007
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
10 jan 2007
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