Revision of the author's senior honors thesis, Wesleyan University, 1975. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Voting rights and protest -- Black voters and the Federal Voting Rights Enforcement effort in the South, 1940-1964 -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act: commencement and climax -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act: crisis and denouement -- Reactions and responses: Selma, Birmingham, and civil rights legislation -- Congressmen, constituents, and the news media -- Enforcement and effects: the Voting Rights Act and Black political participation in the South, 1965-1976 -- The strategy of protest and the SCLC at Selma.
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