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The civil rights era : origins and development of national policy, 1960-1972
- Peyton Mccrary
- History
- 1 June 1991
Racially Polarized Voting in the South: Quantitative Evidence from the Courtroom
- Peyton Mccrary
- HistorySocial Science History
- 24 January 1990
Within the last 15 years historians, political scientists, and sociologists have played major roles as expert witnesses in southern voting-rights cases. In most of these lawsuits, black plaintiffs…
Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861
- Peyton Mccrary, Clark A. Miller, D. Baum
- History
- 24 January 1978
break of civil war. Historians of American voting behavior have examined many aspects of the election and the six years of realignment which preceded it, but the bulk of this research focuses on the…
The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate
- Peyton Mccrary, Allan G. Bogue
- History
- 1 September 1982
Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age
- Peyton Mccrary, George B. Forgie
- History
- 1 February 1979
George B. Forgie argues that the crisis of the Union was decisively structured by one obvious, overbearing fact: the dominant figures in American public life in the 1850s were born in the early…
The Interaction of Policy and Law: How the Courts Came to Treat Annexations under the Voting Rights Act
- Peyton Mccrary
- Economics, HistoryJournal of Policy History
- 2 September 2014
Gomillion v. Lightfoot is among the best-known and most important voting rights decisions of the twentieth century. 1 Known at the time as the “Tuskegee gerrymander” case, Gomillion is usually cited…
Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment
- R. N. Current, Peyton Mccrary
- History
- 23 January 1980
After victorious federal troops swept through southern Louisiana in 1862, the state became the testing ground for Abraham Lincoln's approach to reconstruction, and thus the focal point for the debate…
The Dynamics of Minority Vote Dilution
- Peyton Mccrary
- History
- 1 January 1999
For the past century, the struggle between defenders of the traditional ward system and advocates of electing all city council members at large has been a central element in urban politics in the…
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