TY - BOOK AU - Valelly,Richard M. TI - The two reconstructions: the struggle for Black enfranchisement T2 - American politics and political economy SN - 9780226845272 (electronic bk.) AV - JK1924 .V35 2004eb U1 - 323.1196/073/009 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - United States KW - Voting Rights Act of 1965 KW - États-Unis KW - African Americans KW - Suffrage KW - History KW - 1863-1877 KW - 1877-1964 KW - Politics and government KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Political parties KW - Election law KW - Noirs américains KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Élections KW - Droit KW - Partis politiques KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Civil Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Human Rights KW - Reconstruction (1865-1877) KW - gtt KW - Civil Rights Movement KW - Negers KW - Politieke participatie KW - Kiesrecht KW - 1865-1877 KW - 1945-1989 KW - 1865-1877 (Reconstruction) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-311) and index; The strange career of African American voting and office-holding -- Forging the coalition of 1867-1868 -- Incomplete institutionalization -- Party-building during the First Reconstruction -- The limits of jurisprudence-building -- The vortex of racial disenfranchisement -- Heralding the Second Reconstruction: the coalition of 1948 -- The coalition of 1961-1965 -- How the Second Reconstruction stabilized -- Institutions and enfranchisement N2 - Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of the Southern Political Science AssociationThe Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only a few decades. Ultimately a "second reconstruction"--Associated with the civil rights movement and t UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=314973 ER -