Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and

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Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics (American Political Challenges)

Black voters can make or break a presidential electionâ€•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 electionâ€•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 voteâ€•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.

Country	USA
Author	Ronald W. Walters
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
EAN	9780742548060
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0742548066
Label	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2007-01-10
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Studio	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics (American Political Challenges)

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