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Invisible Black Politics: An Analysis of Black Congressional Leadership from the Inside

Congressional Fellowship Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2011

Katrina L. Gamble
Katrina L. Gamble
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Brown University
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For most of American history, black Americans were excluded from the political process. Even after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, for decades, especially in the South, blacks were prevented from voting through various institutional tactics (e.g., poll taxes and literacy tests), violence, and intimidation. As a result, most political institutions through the mid-twentieth century had few or no black faces. With the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Fifteenth Amendment was codified, and blacks began to vote and participate in the political process in unprecedented ways.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 463 - 467
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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