Blackballed the Black vote and US democracy

"Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through...

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Main Author: Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
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