Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act - Race, Voting, and Redistricting (Hardcover)

Contents:
Hearings on The Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act:

Hearings Before the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee (Subcommittee No. 4) of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 92nd Congress, First Session on the Enforcement and Administration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, As Amended, May 26; June 2 & 10, 1971, Serial No. 8, GPO (1971):

Testimony of:

* Henry, Dr. Aaron, president, Mississippi State Conference of Branches, NAACP, accompanied by Clarence Mitchell, director, Washington bureau, NAACP, and Frank Polhaus, counsel, Washington bureau, NAACP.
* Lewis, John, director, Voter Education Project.
* Derfner, Armand, attorney, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, accompanied by Stanley Halpin, attorney, Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, New Orleans, Louisiana

Testimony of and Brief Submitted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Prepared by Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Assisted by Eleanor K. Holmes and H. Miles Jaffe):

* Raugh, Joseph L., Jr., general counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Accompanied by Clarence Mitchell, director, Washington bureau, NAACP, and Frank Polhaus, counsel, Washington bureau, NAACP

Correspondence:

* Parker, Frank, R., attorney, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to Hon. Don Edwards, May 19, 1971.

* Edwards, Hon. Don, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee, to David L. Norman, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, June 1, 1971.

* Norman, David L., Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Reply to Edwards, Hon. Don, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee and 'Current Registration in Mississippi Counties.'

Hearings on Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965:

Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, 91st Congress, First and Second Sessions on S. 818, S. 2456, S. 2507, and Title IV of S. 2029, Bills to Amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, July 9, 10, 11, and 30, 1969 and February 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 1970, GPO (1970).

Statement of Honorable Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona on Voter Residency Requirements I the Nation, Thurs., February 19, 1970.

Voting Rights Act Extension, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 94-196, May 8,1975:

* 'Report, together with Additional, Supplemental, Separate, Additional Supplemental, and Views Concurring in Part and Dissenting (to accompany H.R. 6219) B. Title II: Expansion of the Voting Rights Act.'

* Mc Donald, Laughlin. A Special Report from the American Civil Liberties Union, 'Voting Rights in the South.' Laughlin McDonald (January, 1982).

* Ortiz, Daniel 'Note: Alternative Voting Systems as Remedies or Unlawful At-Large Systems.' Yale Law Journal (1982).

Voting Rights Act Extension. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, 2nd Session, Report no. 97-417, Calendar No. 598 May 25, 1982: 'Report of the Committee on the Judiciary on S. 1992 with Additional Minority ad Supplemental Views VI. Amendment to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,' and 'Additional Views of Senator Strom Thurmond.'

* Low-Beer, John R. 'The Constitutional Imperative of Proportional Representation.' Yale Law Journal 94 (1984).

Shapiro, Howard. 'Geometry and Geography: Racial Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act.' Yale Law Journal 94 (1984).

* Note: The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons: Citizenship, Criminality and the 'Purity of the Ballot Box', ' Harvard Law Review (102) (1989).

Strauss, David, A. 'The Myth of Colorblindness.' Supreme Court Review (1986).

McCrary, Peyton and Pamela S. Karlan 'Book Review: Without Fear and Without Research: Abigail Thernstrom on the Voting Rights Act.' Journal of Law and Politics 4 (1988).

McCrary, Peyton and J. Gerald Hebert 'Keeping the Courts Honest: The Role of Historians as Expert Witnesses in Southern Voting Rights Cases.' Southern University Law Review 16 (1989).

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Controversies in Constitutional Law
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	2001
Introduction by:	Marsha Darling
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	486
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-4066-9
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship
LSN:	0-8153-4066-4
Barcode:	9780815340669

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