scholarly journals Voter Participation in the Absence of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Keith Parker ◽  
Dora Tilles ◽  
Clifton Brown ◽  
Dawn Brown McGlotten
Keyword(s):  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Voting Rights Act

scholarly journals Geometry and Geography: Racial Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act

1984 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard M. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voting Rights Act

Selma and the Place of Fiction in Historical Films

2018 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-123
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
Historical Film ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
Moral Certainty ◽  
Historical Reenactments

Every historical film must contend with the possibility that its viewers will be scandalized by its mixture of fact and fiction, but no recent historical film has faced such pressure to justify its hybrid nature as Selma has, in large part because no recent film has taken on so momentous and controversial a historical subject: the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The renewed urgency of the issues Selma dramatizes, along with the film’s own commitment to the “moral certainty” of the civil rights movement, helps explain why Selma wavers in a self-defense that links the fictionality of its historical reenactments to the purposely theatrical element of the marches themselves. But politics are not the only problem for fiction in Selma, and to show why, this essay compares Selma to an earlier historical film, The Westerner (1940), that openly flaunts the commercial nature of its fictionality.

Assessing the Legality of Runoff Elections under the Voting Rights Act

1986 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 876
Author(s):  
Matthew G. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Runoff Elections

scholarly journals The Impact of the Voting Rights Act on American Political Parties

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 565-575
Author(s):  
Howard A. Scarrow
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact

The weakening of American political parties has been a theme featured in the writings of political scientists for the past several decades. This essay is addressed to developments which may further that decline-developments which have undermined the very purpose which American political parties are said to serve. I refer to legal standards which were established by the Supreme Court in 1964, and which have since been expanded by the Court and then incorporated into the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its amendment in 1982.

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