Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…Lingering liberal Democratic influence in Congress, coupled with conservatives’ fears of violating the norm of racial equality, obstructed Republican diminution of federal voting rights enforcement via legislation. …”
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Reconstruction's Lessons by Susan Carle

“… In the current moment in the legal struggle for racial equality in the United States, the nation seems at risk of repeating its history. …”
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Race, Gender, and Power : Black Women, White Women, and Racial Segregation in the Southern United States (1920-1970) by Anne Stefani

“…These conditions account for the fact that the women who became engaged in the struggle for racial equality in the region did so separately at first, and then joined their efforts in the civil rights movement. …”
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