Series Introduction

Volume Introduction

U.S. Constitution, Amendments XIV and XV

The Enforcement Act (The Civil Rights Act of 1870)

The Force Act of 1871

The Unhappy History of Civil Rights Legislation

E. Gressman

Civil Rights Act of 1957, President's State of the Union Message, Part IV

Civil Rights Act of 1960, Title III

United States Supreme Court Opinion in Gomillion v. Lightfoot

Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VIII

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Address on Voting Rights to Joint Session of Congress by President Johnson, March 15, 1965

Text of President Johnson's Voting Rights Message to Congress, Week Ending March 19, 1965

Text of President Johnson's March 13th News Conference, Week Ending March 19, 1965

Report of the House Judiciary Committee, The Origins, House Report No. 439

Debate on Proposed Administration Bill, S. 1564, Senate-89th Congress, 1st Session (April 22-May 26, 1965)

Tables for States That Used Tests or Devices as Defined in the VRA, Presented by Attorney General Katzenbach, March 18, 1965

Congressional Quarterly Fact Sheet on Voting Rights: ``Sweeping Voting Bill Introduced in Congress,'' Week Ending March 19, 1965

Resolution, House of Representatives--89th Congress, 1st Session, July 6-9, 1965

Conference Report to Accompany S. 1564, August 2, 1965

Statement, Senate, August 4, 1965

Floor Action: Senate Votes for VRA, Week of May 28, 1965

United States Supreme Court Opinion and Justice Black's Opinion in South Carolina v. Katzenbach

Copyright Acknowledgments

Series Introduction

Volume Introduction

Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act

Hearings Before the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee on the Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Testimony of Aaron Henry et al., NAACP

Hearings Before the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee on the Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Testimony of John Lewis, Director, Voter Education Project

Hearings Before the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee on the Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Testimony of Armand Derfner et al., Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Testimony of, and Brief Submitted by, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Joseph L. Rauh

Correspondence

Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to Hon. Don Edwards, May 19, 1971

Frank R. Parker

Correspondence

Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee, to David L. Norman, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, June 1, 1971

Hon. Don Edwards

Correspondence

Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, reply to Hon. Don Edwards, Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee and ``Current Registration in Mississippi Counties''

David L. Norman

Amendments to the Voting Rights Act

Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary on Amendments to the Voting Rights Act, 1970 Statement of Hon. Barry Goldwater

Voting Rights Act Extension, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 94-196, May 8, 1975

Alternative Voting Systems as Remedies for Unlawful At-Large Systems

Daniel Ortiz

The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act: A Legislative History

Thomas M. Boyd

The Constitutional Imperative of Proportional Representation

John R. Low-Beer

Geometry and Geography: Racial Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act

Howard Shapiro

The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons: Citizenship, Criminality, and the ``Purity of the Ballot Box''

The Myth of Colorblindness

David A. Strauss

Book Review: Without Fear and Without Research: Abigail Thernstrom on the Voting Rights Act

Peyton McCrary

Keeping the Courts Honest: The Role of Historians as Expert Witnesses in Southern Voting Rights Cases

Peyton McCrary

Copyright Acknowledgments

Series Introduction

Volume Introduction

Map Drawers Must Toe the Line in Upcoming Redistricting

Rhodes Cook

Voluntary Constituencies: Modified At-Large Voting as a Remedy for Minority Vote Dilution in Judicial Elections

Edward Still

Undoing the Right Thing: Single Member Offices and the Voting Rights Act

Pamela S. Karlan

A Case for Race-Consciousness

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Redistricting of the Mississippi State Legislature 1991-1992: The Impact of the Grassroots Community on the Formation of Public Policy

Shaw v. Reno: A Mirage of Good Intentions with Devastating Racial Consequences, with Appendices

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

The Supreme Court, 1993 Term: [E]racing Democracy: The Voting Rights Cases

Lani Guinier

Quotas Aren't the Issue

Allan Lichtman

Gerrymander Hypocrisy: Supreme Court's Double Standard

Jamin B. Raskin

More Notes from a Political Thicket

Abigail Thernstrom

Go Back to the Drawing Board to Make More Votes Count

John B. Anderson

Factual Errors and Chilling Consequences: A Critique of Shaw v. Reno and Miller v. Johnson

Frank Parker

Making Sense Out of the Way We Should Vote

R. Bruce Dodd

Not `Wrongful' by Any Means: The Court's Decisions in the Redistricting Cases Carol M. Swain

The Case for Proportional Representation

Robert Richie

Superdistricts in North Carolina

William Raspberry

Redistricting: Look Beyond Political Fighting Over Single-Member Districts

Dred Scott's Unwon Freedom: The Redistricting Cases as Badges of Slavery

James U. Blacksher

Enforcing Voting Rights in the Clinton Administration As We Approach the New Millennium

Todd A. Cox

Issues Relating to African American History and ``Communities of Interest'' in Georgia's 11th Congressional District

Marsha J. Tyson Darling

Copyright Acknowledgments