Black Voting Rights 1865-2019: Two Reconstructions and Four Mississippi Plans

• In Event: Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow? The Twenty-First Century’s Restrictive New Voting Laws and their Impact in the States

Brief Overview

Over more than 240 years of independence, people have been enfranchised and disfranchised in an endless game in which no victory or defeat is ever permanent. This paper is a history of voting rights for African Americans since the Civil War.

Author

• Russell Brooker, Alverno College