001477986 000__ 06295nam\a22008055i\4500 001477986 001__ 1477986 001477986 003__ DE-B1597 001477986 005__ 20231026034839.0 001477986 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477986 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477986 008__ 230103t20222001nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477986 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1302166163 001477986 020__ $$a9780823295012 001477986 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823295012$$2doi 001477986 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)575377 001477986 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1301549656 001477986 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477986 0410_ $$aeng 001477986 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477986 072_7 $$aHIS036050$$2bisacsh 001477986 1001_ $$aGoldman, Robert Michael, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477986 24512 $$aA Free Ballot and a Fair Count :$$bThe Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South , 1877-1893 /$$cRobert Michael Goldman. 001477986 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477986 264_4 $$c©2001 001477986 300__ $$a1 online resource (222 p.) 001477986 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477986 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477986 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477986 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477986 4900_ $$aReconstructing America 001477986 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPreface to the New Edition -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. The Constitutional and Political Background of Fifteenth Amendment Rights Enforcement -- $$t2. "A Meet Person Learned in the Law": The Attorney General and the Justice Department before 1877 -- $$t3. The New Department and the New Departure: Voting Rights Enforcement under Hayes, 1877-1880 -- $$t4. "A Free Ballot and a Fair Count": Voting Rights Enforcement and Independent Movements in the South,1880-1884 -- $$t5. Voting Rights and the Democratic Interregnum, 1884-1888 -- $$t6. Revitalization Again: Harrison and Voting Rights Enforcement, 1888-1893 -- $$t7. Bureaucracy, Sectionalism, and the Demise of the "Free Ballot and a Fair Count" -- $$tBibliographical Essay -- $$tIndex 001477986 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477986 520__ $$a"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently ratified Fifteenth Amendment. The Enforcement Acts set forth a range of federally enforceable crimes aimed at combating white southerners' attempts to deny or restrict black suffrage. There are several aspects of this work that distinguish it from other, earlier works in this area. Contrary to older interpretative studies, Goldman's primary thesis is that, the federal government's attempts to protect black voting rights in the South did not cease with the Supreme Court's hostile rulings in U.S. v. Reese and U.S. v. Cruikshank in 1875. Nor, it is argued, did enforcement efforts cease at the end of Reconstruction and the so-called Compromise of 1877. Rather, federal enforcement efforts after 1877 reflected the continued commitment of Republican Party leaders, for both humanitarian and partisan reasons, to what came to be called "the free ballot and a fair count." Another unique aspect of this book is its focus on the role of the federal Department of Justice and its officials in the South in the continued enforcement effort. Created as a cabinet-level executive department in 1870, the Justice Department proved ill-equipped to respond to the widespread legal and extra-legal resistance to black suffrage by white southern Democrats in the years during and after Reconstruction. The Department faced a variety of internal problems such as insufficient resources, poor communications, and local personnel often appointed more for their political acceptability than their prosecutorial or legal skills. By the early 1890s, when the election laws were finally repealed by Congress, enforcement efforts were sporadic at best and largely unsuccessful. The end of federal involvement, coupled with the wave of southern state constitution revisions, resulted in the disfranchisement of the vast majority of African-American voters in the South by the beginning of the Twentieth Century. It would not be until the 1960s and the "Second Reconstruction" that the federal government, and the Justice Department, would once again attempt to ensure the "free ballot and a fair count". 001477986 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477986 546__ $$aIn English. 001477986 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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