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The Race Toward Reapportionment By Staff Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp. 18-24 Billboards and television commercials of earnest faces and subdued colors are inviting many Southerners already to think about the virtues of candidates for the November elections. Back
Reapportionment Roundup By Staff Vol. 4, No. 6, 1982, pp. 20-24 Reapportionment moved into the courtrooms across the South during the summer as federal judges were deluged with petitions and prayers for relief from lawyers of civil rights groups attempting
Drawing the Lines: A Reapportionment Primer By Brian Sherman Vol. 5, No. 5, 1983, pp. 12-18 Reapportionment occurs, or at least should occur, every ten years–when the results of the population census are released. Three years after the 1980 census,
Voting Rights in Edgefield County By Laughlin Mcdonald Vol. 6, No. 3, 1984, pp. 13-14 Edgefield is a small, rural county in South Carolina, lapped along its western boundary by the stately Savannah River. Local residents work on farms, pick
The Law. Reviewed by Laughlin McDonald Vol. 11, No. 5, 1989, pp. 21-23 Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights by Abigail M. Thernstrom (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. 316 pp. $25. Paperback edition, 1989, $10.95.) The Voting
Black Votes Count Reviewed by Laughlin McDonald Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 19-21 Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi after 1965. by Frank H. Parker. (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1990.) Black Votes Count, by Frank
Voting Rights and the Court: Drawing the Lines By Laughlin McDonald Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993, pp. 1-6 On the last day of the 1993 term, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most controversial voting rights decisions of
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A Far Cry from Apartheid By Laughlin McDonald Vol. 16, No. 2, 1994, pp. 1-2 The recent round of congressional redistricting in the South was hailed by the minority and civil rights communities as the most successful in the nation’s
Voting Rights and the Second Reconstruction The Rocky Road to the Present…and Beyond By Chandler Davidson Vol. 16, No. 4, 1994, pp. 4-7 The quest for full political equality by people of color in America—and particularly in the South—is entering
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Willful Retreat From Justice Selwyn Carter, Director of SRC Voting Rights Programs Vol. 17, No. 2, 1995 pp. 1-3 In this thirtieth anniversary year of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the United States Supreme Court is busily erecting new barriers