Vanessa A Holloway: 2 books
In Search of Federal Enforcement
The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans’ voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader’s harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent in...
Getting Away with Murder
The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’...