Black Disfranchisement and Legislative Influence: Evidence from State Legislatures in the American South

• In Event: Electoral and Personal Roots of Representation in Legislatures

Brief Overview

This paper uses original data on committee assignments and bill histories from southern state legislatures between 1880 and 1920 to examine how Black disfranchisement affected patterns of legislative influence.

Author

• Michael Patrick Olson, Washington University in St Louis