Black Ballots

Steven F. Lawson is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

• Chapter 1 The Strange Career of Black DisfranchisementChapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the White PrimaryChapter 3 The Poll Tax Must GoChapter 4 The South Fights Back: Boswellianism and BilboismChapter 5 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Early PhaseChapter 6 Politics and the Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1957Chapter 7 Politics and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957Chapter 8 Justice Delayed. . . Justice DeniedChapter 9 The Suffrage Crusade in the South: The Kennedy PhaseChapter 10 We Shall OvercomeChapter 11 Free at Last?Chapter 12 NotesChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

With the publication of historian Steven Lawson's excellent study of the campaigns for voting rights in the South, we have welcome evidence that scholarship concerned with black activism and governmental policies in post-World War II America is alive and thriving.