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Article: The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2008
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The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement. By Richard M. Valelly. American Politics and Political Economy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xviii], 330. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-84530-3: cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-84528-1.)
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law on August 6, 1965, contained both permanent and temporary provisions, with the latter set to lapse in 1970. These special sections applied mainly to six southern states and part of a seventh and aimed to eradicate suffrage procedures such as literacy tests and poll taxes that had long operated to disenfranchise most African Americans. The law also ...