This service contains market profile reports, lifestyle analysis reports, demographics reports, and PRIZM reports.

Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

• Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1. The State of African American Election Data
• Chapter 2. The Literature on the African American Electorate
• Chapter 3. The African American Electorate in the Colonial Era, 1610-1773
• Chapter 4. The African American Electorate in the Revolutionary Era, 1774-1789
• Chapter 5. The Electoral Context in Antebellum America, 1788-1861
• Chapter 6. The African American Electorate in Antebellum and Civil War America, 1788-1867
• Chapter 7. The Reversal of African American Suffrage Rights prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788-1870
• Chapter 8. Suffrage Referenda Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1846-1870
• Chapter 9. Voting Behavior of the African American Electorate Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788-1870
• Chapter 10. The First African American Nominees and Public Office Holders, 1776-1870
• Chapter 11. The National Equal Rights League
• Chapter 12. The Civil War Election and the African American Soldiers' Vote, 1864
• Chapter 13. African American Voter Registration and Turnout in 1867 Southern State Elections
• Chapter 14. African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the South, 1868 and 1872
• Chapter 15. African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections After the Abolition of Slavery in the Border, Midwest, and Far West States, 1868 and 1872
• Chapter 16. African American Voting Behavior in Subsequent Elections Through Disenfranchisement, 1868 to 1920
• Chapter 17. African American Voting and Non-Voting Behavior in the Era of Disenfranchisement (1888-1908) and Beyond
• Chapter 18. The Lodge Bill and Beyond
• Chapter 19. African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876-1944
• Chapter 20. The Enfranchisement of African American Women: 1669-1921
• Chapter 21. The Electoral Revolt of the African American Voters in 1920-1921 and Beyond
• Chapter 22. African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1920-1944
• Chapter 23. African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1944-1965
• Chapter 24. Rare African American Registration and Voting Data
• Chapter 25. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006
• Chapter 26. Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
• Chapter 27. African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election
• Chapter 28. Summary and Conclusions Appendices Cumulative Bibliography Copyright Acknowledgments Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This pioneering work brings together for the first time in a single reference work all of the extant, fugitive, and recently discovered registration data on African American voters from Colonial America to the present. It features election returns for African American presidential, senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates over time. Rich, insightful narrative explains the data and traces the history of the laws dealing with the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Topics covered include: - the contributions of statistical pioneers including Monroe Work, W.E.B. DuBois and Ralph Bunche - African American organizations, like the NAACP and National Equal Rights League (NERL) - pioneering African American officeholders, including the few before the Civil War - four influxes of African American voters: Reconstruction (Southern African American men), the Fifteenth Amendment (African American men across the country), the Nineteenth Amendment (African American female voters in 1920 election), and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - the historical development of disenfranchisement in the South and the statistical impact of the tools of disenfranchisement: literacy clauses, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses. The African-American Electorate features more than 300 tables, 150 figures, and 50 maps, many of which have been created exclusively for this work using demographic, voter registration, election return, and racial precinct data that have never been collected and assembled for the public. An appendix includes popular and electoral voting data for African-American presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates, and a comprehensive bibliography indicates major topic areas and eras concerning the African-American electorate. The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)