What is the source for the registration figures by race and county? Also, in the future, you should treat the 8-box and secret ballot laws of 1889 and 1895, respectively, as important steps in disfranchisement. See my Shaping of Southern Politics, pp. 91-103. You can now download Shaping for free from my Caltech website.
Oh yes I talked about the 8-box stuff in the Emancipation article. I was rapidly hitting the limit of substack's size for emailing out, so I had to cut backstory short.
The county-race data largely came from the Secretary of State Reports, though in 1964 they didn't publish race in one official document, but newspaper archives from the time had reports.
What is the source for the registration figures by race and county? Also, in the future, you should treat the 8-box and secret ballot laws of 1889 and 1895, respectively, as important steps in disfranchisement. See my Shaping of Southern Politics, pp. 91-103. You can now download Shaping for free from my Caltech website.
Oh yes I talked about the 8-box stuff in the Emancipation article. I was rapidly hitting the limit of substack's size for emailing out, so I had to cut backstory short.
The county-race data largely came from the Secretary of State Reports, though in 1964 they didn't publish race in one official document, but newspaper archives from the time had reports.
Thanks. I wonder why some counties saw a decline in Black registration from 1964 to 1966. Were there purges? Was re-registration somehow required?