Black Voting Rights 1865-2020: 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 in the States

Brief Overview

This paper argues that each period of expanded voting rights in the U.S. brings with it a backlash, with methods generally becoming more subtle over time.

Author

• Russell Brooker, Alverno College