The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This three-volume set brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes.

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).

Contents:
'Judicial Redistricting Cases are Sweeping the South.' Voting Rights Review 1 (1990).

Loewen, James W. 'Racial Block Voting and Political Mobilization in South Carolina.' Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 48 (1990).

Cook, Rhodes 'Map Drawers Must Toe the Line in Upcoming Redistricting.' Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 48 (1990).

'Redistricting Process.' Nation's Cities Weekly 14 (1991).

Still, Edward 'Voluntary Constituencies: Modified At-Large Voting as a Remedy for Minority Vote Dilution in Judicial Elections.' Yale Law and Policy Review 9 (1991).

Karlan, Pamela S. 'Undoing the Right Thing: Single Member Offices and the Voting Rights Act.' Virginia Law Review 77 (1991).

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander 'A Case for Race Consciousness.' Columbia Law Review 91 (1991).

'Redistricting of the Mississippi State Legislature 1991-1992: The Impact of the Grassroots Community on the Formation of Public Policy.' Excerpt from the Southern Echo Training Manual, Advancing Community Organizing Skills, Part 1: The Fundamentals (1998).

Higginbotham Jr., A. Leon, Gregory A. Clarick, and Marcela David 'Shaw v. Reno: A Mirage of Good Intentions with Devastating Racial Consequences, w/ Appendices.' Fordham Law Review 62 (1994).

Darling, Marsha J. Expert Witness Report in Miller v. Johnson (1994) submitted to the United States District Court, 'Issues Relating to African American History and 'Communities of Interest' in Georgia's 11th Congressional District.' (June, 1994).

Guinier, Lani. 'The Supreme Court, 1993 Term: [E]racing Democracy: The Voting Rights Cases.' Harvard Law Review 108 (1994).

'Quotas Aren't the Issue.' Allan Lichtman, New York Times (December 7, 1994).

Raskin, Jamin B. 'Gerrymander Hypocrisy: Supreme Court's Double Standard.' The Nation (February 6, 1995).

Thernstrom, Abigail. 'More Notes from a Political Thicket.' Emory Law Journal 44 (1995).

Anderson, John B. 'Go Back to the Drawing Board to Make More Votes Count.' Christian Science Monitor (January 12, 1996).

Parker, Frank 'Factual Errors and Chilling Consequences: A Critique of Shaw v. Reno and Miller v. Johnson.' Cumberland Law Review 26 (1996).

Dodd, R. Bruce. 'Making Sense Out of the Way We Should Vote.' Chicago Tribune (April 5, 1996).

Swain, Carol M. 'Commentary: Not 'Wrongful' By Any Means: The Court's Decisions in the Redistricting Cases.' Houston Law Review (1997).

Richie, Robert and Steven Hill. 'The Case for Proportional Representation.' Boston Review 23 (1998).

'Superdistricts in North Carolina.' Washington Post (April 17, 1998).

Editorial: 'Redistricting: Look Beyond Political Fighting Over Single-Member Districts.' The Charlotte Observer (April 24, 1998).

Blacksher, James U. 'Dred Scott's Unwon Freedom: The Redistricting Cases as Badges of Slavery.' Southern Changes 20 (1998).

Cox, Todd A. 'Enforcing Voting Rights in the Clinton Administration As We Approach the New Millennium.'