Encouraging Local Compliance with Federal Civil Rights Laws: Field Experiments with the National Voter Registration Act

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Hess ◽  
Michael J. Hanmer ◽  
David W. Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
National Voter Registration Act ◽  
Local Compliance

Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Kathy Roberts Forde
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
New South ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
New Era ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Racial Democracy

Racial divisions shaped the women’s suffrage movement and inflected much of the journalism that helped suffragists collectively imagine women as political beings, persuade others that women should be directly involved in electoral politics, and secure the vote through ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. These racial divisions proved tragic. If the Nineteenth Amendment ever promised a new era of racial democracy in America, that promise was lost when white suffragists abandoned the citizenship aspirations of black women (and men) in the South to the forces of white supremacy. Henry Grady’s New South ideology veiled coordinated efforts across the Southern states to thwart black political power and institute the “solid South” of white supremacy. In 1920, Mary McLeod Bethune helped lead black Floridians in a voter registration drive—a bold effort to claim black civil rights promised in both the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. The result was violent voter intimidation across the state and a massacre of black citizens in Ocoee.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Gershenhorn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Equal Educational Opportunity ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Era

During the twentieth century, black journalists played an essential role in the struggle for equal rights in America. Operating in the racially oppressive South, determined black publishers, editors, and journalists illuminated racial discrimination, while advocating black voter registration and equal educational opportunity. Austin, who edited and published the Carolina Times from 1927 to 1971, was one of the most fearless and effective of these journalists. He boldly challenged white supremacy and racial segregation for over four decades, from the years prior to World War II through the modern civil rights era.

Northern Bourbons: A Preliminary Report on the National Voter Registration Act

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Fox Piven ◽  
Richard A. Cloward
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
National Voter Registration Act

Social and Economic Factors and Negro Voter Registration in the South

1963 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Matthews ◽  
James W. Prothro
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The South ◽  
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽  
Congress Of Racial Equality ◽  
The Right

The vote is widely considered the southern Negro's most important weapon in his struggle for full citizenship and social and economic equality. It is argued that “political rights pave the way to all others.” Once Negroes in the South vote in substantial numbers, white politicians will prove responsive to the desires of the Negro community. Also, federal action on voting will be met with less resistance from the white South—and southerners in Congress—than action involving schools, jobs, or housing.Such, at least, seems to have been the reasoning behind the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, both of which deal primarily with the right to vote. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his predecessor, Herbert Brownell, are both reported to believe that the vote provides the southern Negro with his most effective means of advancing toward equality, and recent actions of the Justice Department seem to reflect this view. Many Negro leaders share this belief in the over-riding importance of the vote. Hundreds of Negro registration drives have been held in southern cities and counties since 1957. Martin Luther King, usually considered an advocate of non-violent direct action, recently remarked that the most significant step Negroes can take is in the “direction of the voting booths.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, historically identified with courtroom attacks on segregation, is now enthusiastically committed to a “battle of the ballots.” In March, 1962, the Southern Regional Council announced receipt of foundation grants of $325,000 to initiate a major program to increase Negro voter registration in the South. The Congress of Racial Equality, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee are among the organizations now participating in the actual registration drives.

If you ask, they will come (to register and vote): Field experiments with state election agencies on encouraging voter registration

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 102021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Mann ◽  
Lisa A. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Voter Registration

Homefront: Black Veterans and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Thomas Koch ◽  
Trevon D. Logan ◽  
John M. Parman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
World War ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Black Veterans

While the role of World War II veterans in the civil rights movement has been well documented, debate about the causal effect of military service remains. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration, we present the first causal estimates of the role of Black veterans in high-risk political participation in the US South. Each Black enlistee increased Black voter registration by more than two additional Black registrants after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We find similar effects on the presence of Black rights groups and, in response, White nationalist organizations.

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