The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Page: 1
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
It is the intent of this thesis to examine the evo-
lution which has taken place in Alabama politics since'
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V. 0. Key's 19^-9 study, Southern Politics. Key's "book
was written in the context of a social system of almost
total racial segregation and disfranchisement of potential
black voters. Due primarily to federal intervention, the
"Jim Crow" system has been broken down and Negroes now re-
present a sizable portion of the electorate in Alabama.
This study is an attempt to determine what, if any, has been
the political impact of recent social changes in Alabama,
chiefly the influx of Negro voters into the Alabama elec-
torate since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965*^
The first portion of this work is a traditional, large-
ly chronological examination of the legal and extralegal
tactics employed since Reconstruction by Southern whites for
the purpose of denying suffrage rights to black citizens.
From Reconstruction until 1957> there was virtually no fed-
eral intervention into the area of Negro rights? that year
^■V. 0. Key, Southern Politics (New York, 19*1-9).
2U. S. Statutes at Large. LXXIX, kj? (1965).
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Smith, Dale Cheryl. The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thesis, May 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131520/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .