the Department of Justice and the enforcement of voting rights in the South, 1877-1893 /
Robert M. Goldman.
New York, N.Y. :
Fordham University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (xxix, 222 pages).
Reconstructing America,
no. 6
1523-4606 ;
Originally published: New York : Garland, 1990, in series: Distinguished studies in American legal and constitutional history. With new front matter.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation known as the Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870-71. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights of African-Americans as guaranteed under the recently ratified Fifteenth Amendment. By defining a range of federally prosecutable crimes, the Enforcement Acts aimed at combating white southerners' attempts to deny or restrict black suffrage."--Jacket.
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