The African American Electorate

A Statistical History

Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett, Donald R. Deskins

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780872895089
• eBook ISBN: 9781452234380
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate: A Statistical History attempts to answer by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span.

Combining insightful narrative, tabular data, and original maps, The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - The State of African American Election Data
• Chapter 2 - The Literature on the African American Electorate
• Chapter 3 - The African American Electorate in the Colonial Era, 1610–1773
• Chapter 4 - The African American Electorate in the Revolutionary Era, 1774–1789
• Chapter 5 - The Electoral Context in Antebellum America, 1788–1861: The Impact of the Three-Fifths Clause
• Chapter 6 - The African American Electorate in Antebellum and Civil War America, 1788–1867
• Chapter 7 - The Reversal of African American Suffrage Rights prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788–1870
• Chapter 8 - Suffrage Referenda Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1846–1870
• Chapter 9 - Voting Behavior of the African American Electorate prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788–1870
• Chapter 10 - The First African American Nominees and Public Office Holders, 1776–1870
• Chapter 11 - The National Equal Rights League: An African American Suffrage Organization during and after the Civil War
• Chapter 12 - The Civil War Election and the African American Soldiers’ Vote, 1864
• Chapter 13 - African American Voter Registration and Turnout in 1867 Southern State Elections: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Military Reconstruction Acts
• Chapter 14 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the South, 1868 and 1872
• Chapter 15 - African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the Border, Midwest, and Far West States, 1868 and 1872
• Chapter 16 - African American Voting Behavior in Subsequent Elections through Disenfranchisement, 1868–1920
• Chapter 17 - African American Voting and Non-Voting Behavior in the Era of Disenfranchisement (1888–1908) and Beyond
• Chapter 18 - The Lodge Bill and Beyond: Proposed Federal Supervision of Federal Elections in the South, 1861–1921
• Chapter 19 - African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876–1944: A Mobilizer of the Re-enfranchisement Drive in the South
• Chapter 20 - The Enfranchisement of African American Women, 1669–1921
• Chapter 21 - The Electoral Revolt of African American Voters in 1920–1921 and Beyond
• Chapter 22 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1920–1944
• Chapter 23 - African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1944–1965
• Chapter 24 - Rare African American Registration and Voting Data: Episodic Events from the 1920s–1964
• Chapter 25 - The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006
• Chapter 26 - Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement: The Newest Technique of Vote Dilution and Candidate Diminution
• Chapter 27 - African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election: The 2008 Election of President Barack Obama
• Chapter 28 - Summary and Conclusions
• Appendices
• Cumulative Bibliography
• Copyright Acknowledgments
• Index