Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965

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Black Votes Count The research for this book was supported by the generosity of the Joint Center for Political Studies. FrankR. Parker Black Foreword by EddieN. Williams Votes Count Political Empowerment in Mississippi after 1965 The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London © 1990 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. 94 93 92 543 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parker, Frank R. Black votes count : political empowerment in Mississippi after 1965 I Frank R. Parker; foreword by Eddie N. Williams. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8078-1901-8 (alk. paper).-ISBN 0-8078-4274-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Afro-Americans---Mississippi-Politics and government . 2. Afro-Americans---Suffrage-Mississippi. 3. Mississippi -Politics and government-1951- . 4. Voting-Mississippi -History-20th century. 5. Political participationMississippi -History-20th century. I. Title. EI85.93.M6P37 1990 89-39074 323.1'1960730762-dc20 CIP Excerpt from Calvin Tomkins, "Profiles (Marian Wright Edelman): A Sense of Urgency," The New Yorker, March 27, 1989, reprinted by permission. © 1989 Calvin Tomkins. Originally in The New Yorker Magazine. Map 2.1, Land Areas of MisSissippi, adapted from James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis, eds., Mississippi: Conflict and Change, rev. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980) and used with permission of the editors. Design by April Leidig-Higgins THIS BOOK WAS DIGITALLY PRINTED. To Anne and for Ian, Barbara, Stephanie, and Kevin ...