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Taking Voting Rights Seriously: Rediscovering the Fifteenth Amendment

"I. Introduction II. Tracing the Development of Fifteenth Amendment Theory ... A. Early Efforts to End the Reign of Terror at the Ballot Box ... B. Origins of Judicial Intervention to Protect Black Voting Rights ... 1. The Fifteenth Amendment Challenges of 1915 ... 2. The Two Fourteenth Amendment Cases ... 3. New Grandfather Clauses, Vote Fraud, ""Understand and Explain"

Downloadable Article, 1985
Nebraska Law Review, 64, 19851231, 3
1985