nmm 22 4500 ICPSR06646 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130620s1996 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR06646 MiAaI MiAaI Quiet Revolution in the South [electronic resource] the Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 [Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia] Chandler Davidson , Bernard Grofman 2006-01-12 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1996 ICPSR 6646 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-06-20. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. The purpose of this study was to examine the causes of gains in Black office-holding in the South over the past two decades, including effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on changes in local city election structure, the enfranchisement of Blacks in the South, and the prevention of the dilution of minority votes in terms of enabling Blacks to win local office. The data are longitudinal, gathered at two points in time at the city level. The collection includes eight state-specific data files that contain variables such as type of election system in use at each time period (at-large, single-member district, or mixed), total number of Black council members at each of two time points for each city, total number of council members, 1980 Census city total population, 1980 Census Black city population, and voting age population. Also included is "Table Z," a set of state-specific supplementary tables listing all lawsuits filed between 1965 and 1989 under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, or the Voting Rights Act by private plaintiffs or the Justice Department that challenged at-large elections in municipalities in all eight of the southern states covered in this study, and in counties in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06646.v1 African Americans icpsr political participation icpsr Voting Rights Act (1965-USA) icpsr RCMD IX. Minority Populations RCMD IX.A. African American RCMD X. Political Participation ICPSR XVII.A. Social Institutions and Behavior, Minorities and Race Relations Davidson, Chandler Grofman, Bernard Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06646.v1