The two reconstructions : the struggle for Black enfranchisement / Richard M. Valelly.

Author: Valelly, Richard M.

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

ISBN: 0226845281 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226845303 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Description: xvii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: American politics and political economy

Subject: United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
African Americans Suffrage History.
African Americans History 1863-1877.
African Americans History 1877-1964.
African Americans Politics and government.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
Political parties United States History.
Election law United States History.
United States Politics and government 1865-1877.
United States Politics and government 1945-1989.

Contents: The strange career of African American voting and office-holding -- Forging the coalition of 1867-1868 -- Incomplete institutionalization -- Party-building during the First Reconstruction -- The limits of jurisprudence-building -- The vortex of racial disenfranchisement -- Heralding the Second Reconstruction: the coalition of 1948 -- The coalition of 1961-1965 -- How the Second Reconstruction stabilized -- Institutions and enfranchisement.